14/03/2013
CPS Employees Admit £1m Taxi Fraud
Two Crown Prosecution Service employees have admitted producing invoices, totally more than £1m, for a cab company that didn’t exist.
Lisa Burrows and Tahir Mahmood admitted the bogus claims for taxi fares, supposedly used to transport witnesses.
Burrows, 41, a finance manager from Oldbury, West Midlands, and office worker Mahmood, 50, from Hodge Hill, Birmingham, will be sentenced in July, and have been warned to expect "inevitable" jail terms at Birmingham Crown Court.
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Lisa Burrows and Tahir Mahmood admitted the bogus claims for taxi fares, supposedly used to transport witnesses.
Burrows, 41, a finance manager from Oldbury, West Midlands, and office worker Mahmood, 50, from Hodge Hill, Birmingham, will be sentenced in July, and have been warned to expect "inevitable" jail terms at Birmingham Crown Court.
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