Fraudster claimed to be EU Commissioner

A Macedonian woman was yesterday given a one-year jail term suspended for two years after she admitted to defrauding people by falsely claiming she was an EU Commissioner. Magistrate Antonio Mizzi heard 37-year-old Berta Sanders-Korunovska, a financial...

A Macedonian woman was yesterday given a one-year jail term suspended for two years after she admitted to defrauding people by falsely claiming she was an EU Commissioner.

Magistrate Antonio Mizzi heard 37-year-old Berta Sanders-Korunovska, a financial advisor by profession, plead guilty to obtaining money by false pretences and trading in influence on and before December 2006.

She also admitted to forging documents, the malicious use of the forged documents and making false declarations.

Police Inspector Kevin Borg prosecuted.

Lawyer Anthony Cutajar appeared for the woman.

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