Fraud unit civil servant sacked for wife's deals worth £165,000 | Politics | The Guardian

Fraud unit civil servant sacked for wife's deals worth £165,000 | Politics | The Guardian: "A senior civil servant was able to employ his wife for nearly three years in two fraud prosecution offices on 'lucrative' consultancies worth nearly £165,000, before he was sacked for gross misconduct, an MPs' report reveals.

The Revenue and Customs prosecutions office was criticised for failing to stop the office's chief operating officer, David Partridge, from employing his wife, an arrangement subsequently spotted by auditors."