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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Katie Dickinson

Man who pretended to be Greggs manager to claim £710,000 in Covid grants jailed

A man who pretended to be a property manager for Greggs to con a city council out of £710,000 in Covid business grants has been jailed for four years.

Aftab Baig, 47, from Glasgow, was part of a fraud which saw bogus claims made against all 32 Leeds branches of the bakery chain at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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