BBC Rogue Traders Presenter Dan Penteado Jailed After Benefit Fraud
You may know him from the hit BBC show Rogue Traders and hes also knowen for driving around on a motorbike with Matt Allwright finding out fraud scams but its looking like the tables have turned for Dan Penteado!
Dan has been jailed for 12 weeks for council tax and housing benefit fraud worth more than £24,000.
His solicitor Terrence Scanlan told Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court he committed the fraud from 2008 to 2012 because he was on a short-term contract with the BBC and made the “very poor judgment not to interrupt the flow of housing benefit”.
Debt-ridden Penteado was only caught when a council housing benefit officer recognised him on Rogue Traders and matched the name to his fraudulent application.
