A serial fraudster is facing legal action after collecting more than €75,000 in social benefits he was not entitled to, the Times of Malta has learnt.

Government sources said the man, whose identity could not be revealed, was caught abusing seven benefits, including different pension schemes, as well as disability and sickness assistance in recent weeks.

A Social Solidarity Ministry spokeswoman said that the Benefit Fraud Investigation Department had traced the abuse back to 2006, the year the department was first set up. It is not known whether the abuse had been going on for longer.

The spokeswoman said that the fraudster’s case was one of several recently concluded inquiries by the benefit fraud investigators, which were now taking legal action against him.

Read more in the Times of Malta.

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