The founder of a flagship free school in Bradford, and two staff members, have today been jailed for fraudulently obtaining around £150,000 from government grants.
Sajid Hussain Raza, 43, Shabana Hussain, 40, and Daud Khan, 44, were convicted by a jury at Leeds Crown Court in August of making payments into their own bank accounts from money given by the Department for Education to help set up Bradford’s Kings Science Academy in 2011.
The fraudulent activity continued for three years, between November 2010 and December 2013.
Raza was found guilty of four counts of fraud, three counts of false accounting and two counts of obtaining money by deception and today was jailed for five years.
Hussain, a teacher at the school and Raza’s sister, was convicted of one count of fraud and one count of obtaining property by deception and was today jailed for 6 months.
Khan, the financial director at the school, was found guilty of two counts of fraud and three counts of false accounting and was today jailed for 14 months.
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