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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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A civil servant secretly held multiple taxpayer-funded government jobs simultaneously as part of a fraud worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, a court heard.
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court → hold → pounds
Kashim Chowdhury allegedly lied about his employment in order to rack up additional roles with various departments including the Home Office, Defra, and the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Chowdhury → lie → Health
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.
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all → employ → pounds
Chowdhury earned nearly £350,000 from eight employers over a period of three years, and he was paid more than £280,000 in gross pay from employers for months where he had more than one full-time job, the court heard.
Prosecutor Lucy Organ told jurors at Southwark Crown Court: 'In summary, this defendant, Kashim Chowdhury, between 2020 and 2023, obtained and held a series of full-time employments in the civil service and associated public bodies at the same time.
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defendant → earn → time
By that I mean he obtained and had more than one full-time job at the same time and was being paid for more than one full-time job at the same time.
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he → mean → time
He achieved this – having concurrent full-time jobs - by making false representations, false declarations, concerning his existing employment status and employment history.
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Civil servant Kashim Chowdhury, 55, arrives at court for his fraud trial
He is accused of fraudulently taking on multiple government jobs at the same time
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He had to because if he told a respective employer he had a full-time job, they wouldn't have given him another one, would they?
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they → have → one
The prosecutor added: 'He also made, the prosecution say, continuing implied false representations by having a full-time job and not revealing to his employers that he had other full-time employment.
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he → add → employment
In fact, members of the jury, you will hear evidence that at times he positively lied about his employment history and having other full-time jobs.
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he → hear → jobs
He concealed that he had multiple simultaneous employments from his employers.
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he → conceal → employers
'As a result, he was paid for multiple full-time jobs at the same time.
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he → pay → time
We say those jobs were obtained by false representation – fraud – and made a financial gain for himself from this fraud.
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jobs → say → fraud
His alleged fraud started in June 2020 – three months after the Covid pandemic struck – when he was applying for jobs in government departments despite working full-time for the local council.
Chowdhury, of Whitechapel in east London, denies nine counts of fraud.
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Chowdhury → allege → fraud
The court heard he also worked for the Department for Business and Trade, the Food Standards Agency, the East London NHS Trust, and Tower Hamlets council.
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he → hear → Business
He appeared in the dock wearing a blue open-neck shirt and a dark jacket, having turned up to court covering his face.
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The trial is due to last for around three weeks.
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