Fraud investigation in to welfare claims on the 14/7/11

As part of an ongoing investigation into fraudulent welfare claims Detectives from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation and Inspectors from the Department of Social Protection searched a number of houses in the north and west Dublin areas this morning (14/7/2011).

During the searches a large number of documents were seized and five people were arrested. 
 

Three males (aged in their late teens, 20's & 30's) and 2 females (aged in their 20's & 40's) are currently detained under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at various Dublin Garda Stations.