Seven years for conman who stole a fortune from EU immigrants fund

BIRMINGHAM

A conman who splashed out on a £55,000 Bentley and holidays in Dubai after swindling £1.1million from a ‘soft’ EU fund to help immigrants settle into the UK has been jailed for seven years. Mohammed Chaudhari, 37, used bogus documents to secure grants for schemes promoting ‘social, cultural, and economic integration’ into Britain. The crooked businessman ‘cynically took advantage’ of clueless Home Office officials, under then-Home Secretary Theresa May, who ‘did not have the resources to really closely scrutinise every…

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