Couple ran ‘legal aid translation con’

A couple who defrauded the taxpayer out of £63,000 by inflating translation costs for legal aid documents are facing jail. Solicitor Babita Attra, 41, made sure her boyfriend Alexandru Major, 35, won lucrative translation contracts as part of the cheat on the Legal Aid Authority (LAA). Major was also working as a police station representative for a firm of solicitors, Inner London Crown Court heard. Attra and Major were convicted of conspiracy to defraud and will return for sentence on…