Immigration judge faces jail for £2m legal aid fraud

A judge who teamed up with a gang of crooked lawyers in a plot to fleece the taxpayer out of nearly £2m in fake legal aid claims is behind bars. Rasib Ghaffar, 54, raked in more than £140,000 for a case at Bournemouth Crown Court when he did not even act as an advocate in the case involving Indian restaurants employing illegal immigrants. Ghaffar, a qualified barrister and part-time immigration judge, denied but was convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud…