Five jobs civil servant worked by ‘cut and paste’

A civil servant accused of receiving £284,613 for five different full time government jobs would ‘cut and paste’ to write reports, a court heard. Kashim Chowdhury, 55, lied repeatedly to get jobs from employers including the Food Standards Agency, the Home Office and the Department for Business and Trade, Southwark crown court has heard. Between February 2020 and September 2023 he held a total of eight different jobs raking in a total of £349,378, jurors heard. When bosses became suspicious…