A French music teacher who rented a Dublin penthouse apartment with its own private swimming pool had dual identities so that he could work and claim social welfare. Daniel Daudet, 40, obtained a PPS number under the name Alexander Daude in 2002 and used this to claim €175,000 in unemployment, back to education and rent allowances until 2015, a court was told. He obtained a PPS number in his real name a year later and between March 2011 and May 2012 claimed social welfare payments under both names. Garda Ian Abbey said the penthouse that Daudet shared in Dublin with his husband and occasional Airbnb guests was rented for €3,000 a month. At the trial the jury was told that he edited his ID card…

Source: The Times January 18, 2018 00:00 UTC