Restaurant manager gets suspended jail sentence for Covid loan fraud
A Manchester restaurant manager who fraudulently obtained two Covid loans worth £100,000 and spent taxpayers’ money on jewellery has been handed a suspended sentence.
Sehrish Yasmin was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for 12 months, at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday 16 May.
The 32-year-old was also ordered to pay costs and compensation totalling £5,000 within 28 days.
Yasmin, of Cheadle, Greater Manchester, should have started repaying each loan one year after she received the funds in 2020, but only... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...