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Council hits out at conman who tried to steal £700k in loans
Yorkshire Evening Post
|April 17, 2025
Leeds City Council has condemned a con artist who tried to take more than £700,000 from a cash pot designed to help local businesses.
Aftab Baig was jailed this week for a sophisticated scam in which he successfully applied for Covid loans in 2020 while pretending to be a property manager for the fast-food shop Greggs.
The 47-year-old was found guilty of fraud after a six-day trial at Leeds Crown Court, and handed four years' jail.
After his sentencing, a spokesperson for Leeds City Council said: “We are pleased that this case has been brought to a conclusion and that the perpetrator has been held to account for what was a brazen and calculated act of fraud.
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