19th January 2026
Large-scale rental fraud ‘may be run by criminal gangs’ – claim
There’s a claim that criminal gangs may be behind substantial council and private rental fraud. According to a story provided by the Local Democracy Reporting Service and run by the BBC, “hundreds” of Barking and Dagenham council-owned homes could have been fraudulently allocated by “corrupt housing officers for personal gain”. The City of London police...
