A Nigerian couple living in the United Kingdom has been sent to prison after using stolen personal information from London transport workers to claim fake tax refunds.
Luciana Akanbi, who worked for Transport for London (TfL), used her job to access the private details of more than 100 employees. She and her husband, Femi Akanbi, then used the information of 40 workers to file 139 false claims for tax refunds from the UK tax authority.
The fraud was worth about $881,000, and the government lost around $588,000. A judge said it was the worst data breach in TfL’s history. Both were sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.
