Worker claimed €4,000 in welfare

A man from Cameroon who was working for a hotel reservations company in Cork and fraudulently claiming over €4,000 in jobseeker’s allowance was sentenced to three months in prison yesterday.

Worker claimed €4,000 in welfare

Judge Olann Kelleher imposed that term on Antoine Herve Poll-Gouater, aged 33, who left Cameroon as a teenager, lived in France and came to Ireland six years ago and worked for a number of companies. He had been living at City Square, Ladyswell, Cork.

In 2010 he was working with a hotel reservations company based in Cork.

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