A civil servant ‘exploited’ the work from home culture to secretly hold multiple taxpayer-funded government jobs simultaneously as part of a £250,000 fraud, a court heard.
Kashim Chowdhury, 55, lied about his employment in order to rack up additional roles with various unwitting departments including the Home Office, Defra, and the Department of Health and Social Care.
At one point he was employed by five separate Government departments, all paying him a full-time salary, each worth tens of thousands of pounds.
He allegedly told bosses he needed to work from home to look after his elderly mother, and used sick notes to juggle
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