By Asia Samachar | Britain |
A woman has been found guilty of stealing money from a charity she set up and then trying to cover it up with the help of her brother, reported BBC.
Police said Rajbinder Kaur, 55, from Birmingham, founded Sikh Youth UK in 2016 and took money from it to pay off personal debts, as well as sending money to others including family members. She was convicted of six counts of theft and one of money laundering at Birmingham Crown Court, according to the report.
Kaur was also found guilty of knowingly or recklessly providing false or misleading information to the Charity Commission, as was her brother Kaldip Singh Lehal, 43.
The trial heard how the pair applied to set up the charity, but the Charity Commission shut it down after failing to get enough information. Despite this, West Midlands Police said Sikh Youth UK collected donations which were then siphoned off by Kaur, who was a former bank worker.
The force said she had more than 50 personal bank accounts in an attempt to make it as complicated as possible to follow the flow of stolen money, the report added.
BBC quoted Supt Annie Miller as saying Kaur, of Hamstead Road, had attempted to portray herself as being financially naive. “In the simplest of terms Kaur was stealing large amounts of money that had been donated by local people for good causes.”
Kaur and Lehal will be sentenced on Nov 21, the report said.
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