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Academic gets four years in jail for £2.5m grant fraud

An academic and former employee of the University of Cambridge who admitted defrauding green energy funders out of millions has been sentenced to four years behind bars.

Ehsan Abdi-Jalebi, 38, was sentenced at Blackfriars Court on 21 December. The former fellow at Churchill College fraudulently obtained £2.5 million from funders including Innovate UK and the Department of Energy and Climate Change, pocketing £1 million for himself.

In a previous hearing, on 12 October, the academic had pleaded guilty to 13 counts of fraud.

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