Revealed: Five job civil servant found guilty of fraud allegedly ‘stabbed his mother with scissors’ High Court hears as he’s accused of ‘bullying her into signing over family home’

Kashim Chowdhury, a civil servant who held up to five government jobs at once, has been convicted of nine fraud offences involving more than £280,000. The case has drawn attention to how he exploited remote working arrangements after the pandemic, while a separate High Court dispute concerns his terminally ill mother’s transfer of the family home.

Chowdhury’s siblings allege he pressured their mother, Faijun Nessa, into signing documents affecting ownership of the £2 million east London property; he denies coercion and says she acted freely after receiving legal advice. The court also heard an allegation that he stabbed her with scissors in the 1980s. The High Court has yet to issue its decision on the property dispute, and the article does not give details of Chowdhury’s sentence.