Revealed: The £2million Grade II listed four storey Georgian townhouse in fashionable east London where a grasping civil servant juggled five jobs to cheat taxpayers out of £350,000

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Kashim Chowdhury was being paid for five roles. This meant he was contracted to work 183 hours a week - more than the 168 hours which exist in seven days.

Published: 11:56 GMT, 10 November 2026 | Updated: 11:56 GMT, 10 November 2026

This is the trendy £2million house where a fraudster civil servant lived while holding down five government jobs and plundering £350,000 of taxpayer money.

Kashim Chowdhury, 56, who was yesterday found guilty of nine counts of fraud after a four-week trial, resided at the six-bedroom property, just off fashionable Brick Lane, while working for multiple government departments including the Home Office and Defra at the same time during a three-year period.

The four-storey 18th century home, bought by his late mother in 1999, is sandwiched by other multimillion pound houses, with some on his street selling for upwards of £4m.

It was here that Chowdhury pretended to work from his bedroom, exploiting the civil service's work from home culture to keep his camera off at almost all times. On the rare occasion he was forced to turn his screen on for a meeting he put on white makeup to feign illness.

The fraudster claimed he had to work from his Grade II-listed house, noted for its 'special historic and architectural interest', to look after his ailing mother Faijun Nessa who was suffering from bowel cancer.

But his three siblings accuse Chowdhury of bullying their mother, who was illiterate and nearly blind before her death, into giving him half of her home.

Kashim Chowdhury, 56, who was yesterday found guilty of nine counts of fraud after a four-week trial, juggled five civil service jobs while living at this six-bedroom East London property

Chowdhury, who has been remanded in custody, is fighting with his siblings who accuse him of bullying their mum into giving him half of her home a week before she died of cancer in 2023

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