Man convicted after holding five full-time UK public-sector jobs at once

Qasim Chaudhry has been convicted of nine fraud charges after drawing pay from several British public-sector employers at the same time. At one point he held five full-time jobs with contracted hours totalling 183 a week, more hours than a week contains.

The court heard that he fraudulently obtained more than £284,000. Across 2020 to 2023 he worked for eight public bodies and received £350,000 in pay.

A manager became suspicious during a video call while Chaudhry was on sick leave. The wider pattern was eventually detected in a government data-matching exercise in 2024. A judge warned of a severe prison sentence, but the report does not establish a sentence length already imposed.