article_snippet.sent: Pleading not guilty: Mote (pictured again today) allegedly fraudulently claimed almost £500,000 in expenses .
article_snippet.sent: In total Mote dishonestly obtained approximately €355,000 and £184,000 of allowances to which Mote was not entitled.
article_snippet.sent: But Mote made an application to The court saying that the criminal proceedings against Mote were a breach of Mote rights to free movement, as Mote bail conditions meant Mote could not travel freely to Europe.
article_snippet.sent: The courts agreed with this and proceedings against Mote were stayed, prompting the prosecution to make an application to the Attorney General to review the matter.
article_snippet.sent: However, Mr Davies told The court that Mote did not disclose that Mr Davies was being prosecuted for fraud.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Davies said: ‘What Mote doesn't say is something along the lines of “
article_snippet.sent: Jurors heard that the Attorney General overturned the decision and Mote was prosecuted and convicted of benefit fraud in August 2007.
article_snippet.sent: Mote denies four counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, three of false accounting, two of fraud, and one each of acquiring criminal property and concealing criminal property.