英国公务员同时做五份全职工作骗领工资：九项诈骗罪成立、涉案逾28.4万英镑
英国伦敦 Southwark 刑事法庭11月9日裁定，56岁的前公务员 Kashim Chowdhury 九项诈骗罪名全部成立。他来自伦敦东部的 Whitechapel，2020年至2023年间先后在八个公共部门全职岗位上重叠任职，2023年春天一度同时领五份全职工资，合同工时合计每周183小时，比一周七天的总小时数还多。
皇家检控署说，Chowdhury 在2020年2月至2023年9月间反复向政府部门和公共机构申请全职岗位，隐瞒自己已有全职工作的事实。他任职过的机构包括 Tower Hamlets 区政府、环境食品与农村事务部、卫生与社会保障部、英国卫生安全局、商业与贸易部、食品标准局和内政部，每份工作的年薪在3.8万至5.3万英镑之间。三年间他共领取约35万英镑工资，其中超过28.4万英镑被认定为诈骗所得。
检方在庭上说，他利用居家办公和病假安排在多份工作之间周旋。这起案件由英国政府的国家欺诈倡议数据比对发现，该机制定期比对公共部门的工资等记录以查找异常。陪审团经过约七小时评议，一致裁定他八项虚假陈述诈骗罪和一项未披露信息诈骗罪成立。
法官表示，他将面临「非常严厉的监禁刑期」，并拒绝了他的保释申请，量刑日期尚未确定。皇家检控署专职检察官 Sarah Melo 说，Chowdhury 故意隐瞒自己的真实任职情况，好同时拿到多份全职工作的工资；检方将通过《犯罪收益法》程序追缴他诈骗所得的款项。
（来源：英国皇家检控署）
UK Civil Servant Who Held Five Full-Time Jobs at Once Convicted of Nine Fraud Counts Over £284,000
A jury at Southwark Crown Court in London convicted former civil servant Kashim Chowdhury, 56, of nine counts of fraud on November 9. Chowdhury, from Whitechapel in east London, held eight overlapping full-time public-sector jobs between 2020 and 2023, and in the spring of 2023 he was drawing five full-time salaries at once, with contracted hours totalling 183 hours a week, more hours than there are in seven days.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Chowdhury repeatedly applied for positions in government departments and public bodies between February 2020 and September 2023 while concealing that he already had full-time employment. His employers included Tower Hamlets Council, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Health Security Agency, the Department for Business and Trade, the Food Standards Agency and the Home Office, with each job paying between £38,000 and £53,000 a year. He was paid about £350,000 in total, of which more than £284,000 was found to have been fraudulently earned.
Prosecutors told the court he used remote working and sick-leave arrangements to juggle the roles. The case came to light through the government's National Fraud Initiative, a data-matching programme that checks public-sector payroll records for anomalies. After deliberating for about seven hours, the jury unanimously found him guilty of eight counts of fraud by false representation and one count of fraud by failing to disclose information.
The judge said Chowdhury faced a very significant custodial sentence and refused him bail; a sentencing date has yet to be fixed. CPS specialist prosecutor Sarah Melo said he had deliberately concealed the true extent of his employment so he could be paid for multiple full-time jobs at the same time, and that prosecutors would seek to recover his fraudulent earnings through Proceeds of Crime Act proceedings.
(Source: Crown Prosecution Service)
来源：英国皇家检控署
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图片来源：图：位于伦敦南部的 Southwark 刑事法庭大楼，本案在此审理。照片：Christopher Hilton 摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Southwark Crown Court in south London, where the case was heard. Photo by Christopher Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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