Neomai MuasikaThe offending, over period of six years, was premeditated and protracted, Judge Michael Turner said sentencing a benefit fraudster in the Dunedin District Court yesterday. "Essentially, what you did was steal from every taxpayer in the country," he told Neomai Muasika (55), of Dunedin. Muasika had been convicted of six charges of dishonestly using a document, and one charge of obtaining by deception. As a result of information received, inquiries were carried out and it was established Muasika had never separated from her husband. He sentenced her to six months’ home detention (with six months’ post detention conditions) and 200 hours’ community work.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 23, 2018 17:26 UTC