Working from home allowed civil servant Kashim Chowdhury to hold down five full time jobs

A civil servant working from home was paid £284,613 when he held down five different full time government jobs the same time, a court heard. Kashim Chowdhury, 55, lied about repeatedly to get jobs from employers including Food Standards Agency, the Home Office and the Department for Business and Trade, Southwark crown court heard. Between February 2020 and September 2023 he held a total of eight different posts collecting a total of £349,378, jurors heard. Chowdhury was ‘unsurprisingly performing poorly’…