Cambridge don pays back £1m from green energy swindle

A Cambridge don who made a fortune from a green-energy swindle has paid more than £1m back to the government after a long running investigation by the National Crime Agency. Ehsan Abdi-Jalebi, 42, was caught with £100,000 in cash in a Thornton’s Continental chocolate box as he boarded a flight to Tehran from Heathrow airport in 2015. He had been developing a property in Iran worth £900,000 while roaring around in his Maserati. Abdi-Jalebi won international acclaim for his work…