Comms manager ‘fiddled £1m’

A communications manager creamed off more than £1m from a leading British dairy company, a court heard. Zahed Mannan, 33, skimmed over £1,120,000 from Dairy Crest between November 2013 and July 2016, Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court heard. He is said to have bought 203 ‘network switches’ using Dairy Crest finances in his capacity as communication and security manager, before selling them on for profit. Ann Barrett, prosecuting, said: ‘This defendant worked for a company and was responsible for the communications…