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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Police make more arrests in east London council housing fraud investigation

Police investigating allegations that corrupt local authority housing officers demanded cash from tenants for council-owned properties in east London have made more arrests.

A further two suspects have been detained following an investigation into claims that hundreds of homes in Barking and Dagenham were falsely allocated to people, the council said on Tuesday.

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