{"id":57299,"date":"2025-12-18T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=57299"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:20:47","slug":"muslim-chicken-shop-manager-in-uk-jailed-for-50000-covid-loan-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/uncategorized\/muslim-chicken-shop-manager-in-uk-jailed-for-50000-covid-loan-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim chicken shop manager in UK jailed for \u00a350,000 Covid loan fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham: The former manager of a city centre chicken shop has been jailed after fraudulently securing \u00a350,000 in Covid support for a business he had sold the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Mujeebullah Khan applied for the maximum-value Bounce Back Loan on behalf of Chunky Chicken in May 2020. However, Khan and his business partner had sold the Shakespeare Street-based outlet in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, 38, of St Margaret\u2019s Avenue, Nottingham, was sentenced to 22 months in prison when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, December 17. He completed repaying the loan in full shortly before sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that Khan falsely claimed Chunky Chicken was trading at the start of March 2020 as part of the loan application. All \u00a350,000 was transferred two months later to a third party to repay a business debt.<\/p>\n<p>David Snasdell, Chief Investigator at the Insolvency Service, said: \u201cMujeebullah Khan\u2019s offending was very simple \u2013 he secured \u00a350,000 in Covid support for a business he had sold the previous year. The Insolvency Service continues to prosecute Covid fraudsters and will take action against anyone who abused these schemes intended to help legitimate businesses during the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khan was declared bankrupt in May 2021 and signed an eight-year Bankruptcy Restrictions Undertaking in September that year. The undertaking prevents him from borrowing more than \u00a3500 without disclosing his bankrupt status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham: The former manager of a city centre chicken shop has been jailed after fraudulently securing \u00a350,000 in Covid support for a business he had sold the previous year. Mujeebullah Khan applied for the maximum-value Bounce Back Loan on behalf of Chunky Chicken in May 2020. However, Khan and his business partner had sold the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,19,1],"tags":[12096,12097],"class_list":["post-57299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-latest","category-uncategorized","tag-chicken-shop-manager-khan-in-uk","tag-jailed-for-50000-covid-loan-fraud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Muslim chicken shop manager in UK jailed for \u00a350,000 Covid loan fraud - PunjabENews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/uncategorized\/muslim-chicken-shop-manager-in-uk-jailed-for-50000-covid-loan-fraud\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Muslim chicken shop manager in UK jailed for \u00a350,000 Covid loan fraud - PunjabENews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nottingham: The former manager of a city centre chicken shop has been jailed after fraudulently securing \u00a350,000 in Covid support for a business he had sold the previous year. 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