Crooked landlords jailed for laundering £1m scam proceeds

Two crooked landlords who helped launder cash from a £1m housing benefit scam have been jailed. Mgcini Khanye, 37, Sam Hammond, 41, and Kyeshia Stratchan, 29, pocketed payments made to bogus tenants as part of a nine year scam. The fake claims were processed by housing benefit assessors working at councils across London. Lambeth, Kingston, and Barking and Dagenham Councils were cheated out of £1,025,912 in the decade-long fraud which ran between 2006 and 2016. Menelik Cowan, 38, who worked…