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Civil servent jailed for conning London Undergound

December 20, 2007 on 12:50 am | In Fares, tickets, tube |

A civil servent working for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was jailed for 18 months for conning London Underground of £22,000 by claiming fare refunds.

Trushar Patel, 30, roped in his family to fill out thousands of forms which enabled customers to claim a fare refund if they were delayed.

Sentencing the family Judge Peter Fingret said the case showed “a high level of incompetence on the part of Transport for London [TfL] and London Underground [LU]”.

“I can only comment and hope that these sentences may deter other people from obtaining cash benefits out of public funds illegally,” he said.

Prosecutor Francis Sheridan said the scheme was a “positive idea” but “the administration of this scheme was a complete shambles of Monty Pythonesque proportions”.

“No checks were carried out on the services claimed for let alone checks on whether they were late or how many of the given tubes were delayed on any given day,” he added.

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