Fraud is rife at the moment and everyone’s used to public servants milking the taxpayer, but perpetrating fraud whilst working as an accountant for the OFT; now that really takes the piss.

Telegraph: Asif Haque, 38, set up a fictitious company called Data Logic UK and signed off invoices for IT work he falsely claimed had been carried out for the Government department, a court heard on Monday.

He faces jail after submitting invoices totalling more than £350,000 between February 2008 and July 2008. He transferred around £250,000 to his girlfriend Isma Ahmed’s bank account.

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Although Haque pleaded gulity to the charges brought, he will not be sentenced until the end of the month.