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"The Times: Bulgarians exploited the computer that said ‘yes’

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In a major article entitled "Bulgarians exploited the computer that said 'yes'", The Times says that the British nation owes gratitude to Inspector Vassil Panayotov for exposing the gang of Bulgarian fraudsters who took advantage of the "generosity and inadequacy" of the British social system. 
"If his account is true, the Bulgarian policeman from Sliven deserves an MBE," writes the article's author, Libby Purves. She recalls that Panayotov was the man who first became suspicious of "an influx of unexpected cash-splashing in his town, with hundreds of people suddenly living like barons, receiving benefits from the UK and using the weaknesses of the British welfare system." That's why he alerted the British Department for Work and Pensions to what was happening, reports BNR's London correspondent Veselin Paunov.


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