More than £1m worth of fraudulent Covid business support grants have been claimed from Leeds City Council since the start of the pandemic, it has been revealed.
A document, set to go before Leeds city councillors later this week, shows dozens of cases of fraud have been identified by the council and, while most of the money has been recovered, hundreds of thousands of pounds was still in the hands of fraudsters.
The statistics were set out in a report set to go before the council’s Infrastructure Scrutiny Board this week, and sets out details of the Covid discretionary grant scheme.
