Top civil servant Maurice Okello claimed he had malaria when he was jetting around the world on sick pay

A Department for Work and Pensions boss who toured the world while fiddling £45,000 in sick pay has been spared jail after he promised to pay compensation. Maurice Okello, 39, claimed he had been rushed to hospital with malaria after being bitten by a mosquito while he was attending his father’s funeral in Kenya. But rather than lying in a sick bed fighting a deadly disease, Okello jetting to locations around the world including Tampa, Mexico City, Boston, Gothenburg, Kos,…