Remember George Galloway’s dodgy law firm Chambers Solicitors? The one who sent out borderline illegal threatening letters to anyone who so much as tweeted that George Galloway hated Jews? The ones with a website explaining how happy they were to defend people on charges of child sex and murdering their relatives for “honour”. Well they’re in trouble:
TWO solicitors at a leading Bradford law firm, including a senior partner, and a third employee are facing fraud charges after a long-running investigation by West Yorkshire Police.
Mohammed Ayub, 53, senior partner with Chambers Solicitors in Grattan Road, and Neil Frew, 47, a solicitor who works as immigration department associate with the firm, are accused of conspiracy to defraud.
Ayub’s brother Mohammed Riaz, 47, who works in the translation side of the company’s business, has been summonsed to appear in court in relation to the matter.
A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed Ayub and Frew had been charged with conspiracy to defraud.
They are understood to have been charged after answering their bail at a police station.
The allegations relate to the defrauding of the Legal Aid Agency over payments for the provision of interpretation services.
Chambers has vehemently denied any criminality.
The charges follow police raids on the firm’s offices in the centre of Bradford in July last year.
Oh dear.
