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Tower Hamlets benefit fraud councillor Shelina Akhtar jailed

Published: 11:43 AM February 6, 2012    Updated: 8:33 AM October 14, 2020

Disgraced Tower Hamlets councillor Shelina Akhtar has been jailed after admitting three counts of benefit fraud.

The Spitalfields & Banglatown councillor, 33, of Blackwall way, Poplar was jailed for 16 weeks at Snaresbrook Crown Court this morning after admitting three counts of dishonestly claiming housing benefit and council tax at a hearing last month.

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