Landlord of unsafe flats 'deliberately ignored law to gain profit'

A LANDLORD has been sentenced for a “flagrant disregard of the law” relating to “unsafe” properties he rented out in Cardiff.

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Mohammed Abdul Kowsor Choudhury, from Cyncoed, and his company, Pine Best Ltd, were fined a total of £54,000, with a further £10,000 in costs, when the case was heard at Cardiff Magistrates' Court.

The rented property, 173 City Road, is a three-storey Victorian property with a commercial unit on the ground floor, but despite only having planning permission for six self-contained flats, a total of 11 self-contained flats were found at the property.

Rents for each flat were around £600 a month.

Prosecutions relating to this property date back to March 2018, when officers from Shared Regulatory Services visited and discovered 11 flats.