SHOCKING revelations of how a fraudster helped mastermind a £1.7 million council swindle before splashing out on paradise holidays and designer clothes have been met with fury.
The New Journal today (Thursday) reveals the full story of how ex-council official Hieten Patel and accomplice Bruno Hofferer helped themselves to public cash in a massive scam that went unnoticed at the Town Hall for ten years.
Both men were jailed at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday for their role in Camden Council’s biggest ever fraud.
Security in finance offices at the Town Hall is under review and Camden insists it is doing all it can to avoid being caught out by a simi-lar scam. But the case remains a lasting cause of concern.
Tory leader Councillor Piers Wauchope said last night (Wednesday): “These men got away with up to £200,000 a year over a ten year period. Camden’s response has been a complete joke.
“No manager has been disciplined for letting Patel get away with it for so long. There has been no apology and nothing to say that this can’t happen again.”

THE remains of a 28-year-old Jamaican crack dealer were pulled from the Regent’s Canal on Friday night.
Murder squad detectives say they want to catch the killers of Marvin Gentles quickly, before they strike again. His torso was found in a binbag inside a floral ‘granny-bag’-style shopping trolley by a member of the public walking along the towpath.
Other towpath users say they spotted the bag dumped in the canal near London Zoo at least a day earlier.
Police divers continued to search for the rest of Mr Gentle’s body in the canal this week.
Also known by the street name Face, he was identified by DNA from his torso on Tuesday. Last year he was stopped by police who took DNA samples from him after he was involved in a minor road accident.
A post mortem showed he died of at least a dozen stab wounds. His head and arms had been severed and his lower body cut off at the navel.