Green energy fraudster must wait to hear sentence

CAMBRIDGE

A Cambridge University don who conned the government out of up to £2.3m in a green-energy swindle must wait another month before he is sentenced. Ehsan Abdi-Jalebi, 37, was caught with £100,000 in cash in a Thornton’s Continental chocolate box as he was boarding a flight to Tehran from Heathrow airport. 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 on wind turbines and set up…

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