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05-10-2005, 11:07 AM
LONDON (AFP) - A British childcare worker submitted such massively inflated pay claims to his employer that on one single day he claimed to have worked for more than 28 hours, a court was told.
Jaswinder Bains, 45, put in the "blatantly dishonest" claims to help pay for a massive mortgage on his luxury farmhouse, Winchester Crown Court in southern England was told.
Bains worked as a self-employed social worker looking after the interests of children involved in state care and adoption proceedings, and claimed his pay by the hour from a government agency.
But during 2002 and 2003 Bains made massive claims for work he never carried out, prosecutor Andrew Macfarlane said.
On December 15, 2003, Bains is alleged to have claimed he worked 28 hours and 24 minutes, while he also said he worked every single day in six months except Christmas Day.
Macfarlane ridiculed this idea.
"What a day that must have been, if he was truthful," he told the jury of the Christmas Day break. "What must it had been like? Firstly, you would have to introduce yourself to your children. Who is the man carving the turkey?"
Bains also claimed for work carried out when he was on holiday, including 23 hours' work on 29 cases on a day when, his credit cards showed, he had travelled to Paris by Eurostar and spent large sums on food and perfume.
Prosecutors allege Bain wrongly claimed $125,000 to make the payments on his house, which, the court heard, is so big it is in the same local tax bracket as royal residence Buckingham Palace.
Bains denies 24 charges of false accounting. The court heard that he told police the claims were genuine.
"I was working very long hours without sleep. I do not sleep well. I do not need a lot of sleep. I did not feel any effect," he said.
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Jaswinder Bains, 45, put in the "blatantly dishonest" claims to help pay for a massive mortgage on his luxury farmhouse, Winchester Crown Court in southern England was told.
Bains worked as a self-employed social worker looking after the interests of children involved in state care and adoption proceedings, and claimed his pay by the hour from a government agency.
But during 2002 and 2003 Bains made massive claims for work he never carried out, prosecutor Andrew Macfarlane said.
On December 15, 2003, Bains is alleged to have claimed he worked 28 hours and 24 minutes, while he also said he worked every single day in six months except Christmas Day.
Macfarlane ridiculed this idea.
"What a day that must have been, if he was truthful," he told the jury of the Christmas Day break. "What must it had been like? Firstly, you would have to introduce yourself to your children. Who is the man carving the turkey?"
Bains also claimed for work carried out when he was on holiday, including 23 hours' work on 29 cases on a day when, his credit cards showed, he had travelled to Paris by Eurostar and spent large sums on food and perfume.
Prosecutors allege Bain wrongly claimed $125,000 to make the payments on his house, which, the court heard, is so big it is in the same local tax bracket as royal residence Buckingham Palace.
Bains denies 24 charges of false accounting. The court heard that he told police the claims were genuine.
"I was working very long hours without sleep. I do not sleep well. I do not need a lot of sleep. I did not feel any effect," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050509/od_afp/britainjusticefraud_050509171653