Image source, PA MediaKashim Chowdhury fraudulently earned more than £284,000 of taxpayers' money
- Published9 November 2026, 18:02 GMT
Aleesha Adams joined a video call with Kashim Chowdhury in May 2023.
He'd been on sick leave from his job at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) for nearly three months and Adams, his line manager, wanted to put a plan in action to ease him back into work.
At the start of the call, Chowdhury was coughing and waving tissues up to the camera in an attempt to show how ill he was. But what really caught Adams' attention was how pale he looked.
