user: By. Katy Dartford. PUBLISHED:. 13:33 EST, 5 November 2012. |. UPDATED:. 16:46 EST, 5 November 2012. Raja Aboutarik, 56, was found guilty of three counts of falsely making a statement to obtain benefits. A dole cheat claimed more than £13,000 for a Notting Hill flat while receiving a further £45,000 in benefits for a home in Paris, a court heard today. Raja Aboutarik, 56, helped herself to £9,548 in housing benefit and £3,504 in council tax benefit between May 2006 and May last year. Moroccan-born Aboutarik was also receiving around £800 a month from the French government, West London Magistrates’ Court was told. She ‘clearly and deliberately’ provided false information in order to increase her living standards, said prosecutor Roger Hodkinson. ‘It was clear that some of it was money other than for expenses on the property,’ he told the court. ‘Ms Aboutarik was from 1999 receiving state benefits in France, and in fact Ms Aboutarik was arrested on suspicion of benefit fraud in August 2011.’ She raked in just over £58,000 from during the five-year swindle. It only came to an end when she was forced to admit she lived in her Paris home when the French authorities launched an investigation. Kensington and Chelsea Council - who. footed the benefit bill in the UK - say they do not know who was living. at the west London flat. The. cheat, who claims she has alcohol problems and cannot work because her. arm is paralysed from being dropped as a child, is currently repaying. the London council at the rate of just £20 a week. The court was told she has limited means to pay any other costs and also has memory problems after being attacked in Morocco. She also suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma. Aboutarik claimed more than £13,000 for her flat in Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill. District Judge James Henderson handed her an eight-week prison term, suspended for a year. He told her: ‘This went on over a long period of time and you benefited to the extent of some £13,000, and so it seems to me I must give you a prison sentence.’ He said Aboutarik would not have to pay court costs because of her limited means but placed her under nightly curfew for the next three months. Aboutarik, of Notting Hill, west London, admitted three charges of falsely making a statement to obtain a benefit.

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Raja Aboutarik, 56, had been falsely claiming since 1999 in France and since 2006 in UK. Currently repaying the government at just £20 per week. The cheat has claimed she cannot work due to health problems.

Indian tourism authorities will be holding English classes for auto-rickshaw drivers in New Delhi as the city prepares to host the Commonwealth Games in 2010. Auto-rickshaw drivers are being taught English ahead of the Commenwealth Games. More than 40,000 natural gas-fueled auto-rickshaws, or motorized three-wheeled taxis, run on the Indian capital's dilapidated roads, according to the city government statistics. The city is expected to host around 100,000 tourists during the Commonwealth Games scheduled from October 3-14 in 2010. About 9,000 athletes and officials of 52 Commonwealth countries are likely to participate. Some 8,000 auto-rickshaw drivers will be enrolled in the training program that will involve classes in yoga, life skills, first aid, spoken English and psychometric tests, federal Tourism Secretary Sujit Banerjee announced Tuesday. Each trainee will be paid Rs 200, or about $4, daily for attending the program spread over 200 sessions for a year. Indian auto-rickshaw drivers have often been accused of overcharging, refusing short trips and misbehavior. Traffic authorities have in the past opened a range of avenues for passengers to lodge their complaints -- such as on help lines, via text messages or simply calling a telephone number printed on the three-wheeled cabs. "The India image that we strive to convey to a foreign tourist depends, to a large degree, on how good the taxi/auto-rickshaw (driver) that he or she meets is in his demeanor and conduct," Banerjee remarked.

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assistant: More than 40,000 auto-rickshaws ply roads of Indian capital. City expected to host 100,000 tourists during Commonwealth Games. 8,000 auto-rickshaw drivers will be enrolled in training program.