Carnival charity finance officer jailed for fraud

A finance officer who stole more than three quarters of a million pounds from a Notting Hill Carnival charity was jailed for six years. Nadia Ali, 34, paid a total of £784,262 into her own bank accounts over two years while working for the Carnival Village Trust in west London. She disguised the transfers as legitimate payments to suppliers and government organisations. Ali also covered up the fraud by stealing invoices and statements sent to the charity to cover up…