Man to be sentenced over false PUP claims

Prosecution brought arising out an investigation into false claims of pandemic unemployment payments from the Department of Social Protection

Oluwagbewikeke Lewis faced four charges at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. File picture: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

A man who confessed to possessing false documents in the course of an investigation into a pandemic unemployment payment fraud will be sentenced on May 19.

The 35-year-old arraigned was on four charges at Cork Circuit Criminal Court and pleaded guilty to four fraud offences. The prosecution was brought arising out an investigation into false claims of PUP from the Department of Social Protection.