A man has been jailed for pretending to be a property manager for a Greggs chain to con a city council out of £710,000 in Covid grants.
Aftab Baig, 47, from Glasgow, has been jailed for four years for the fraud, which saw fraudulent claims made against all of Leeds’ 32 branches of popular bakery chain, Greggs. The claims were made at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when local councils were able to provide funding to businesses affected by national lockdowns.
