THREE people appeared in Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Tuesday (8) charged with fraud totalling more than £5 million at Cardiff Sixth Form College, once featured in a BBC documentary as "Britain's Brainiest School".
Yasmin Anjum Sarwar, 43, and Nadeem Sarwar, 48, both denied nine separate fraud and theft charges. The third defendant, Ragu Sivapalan, 39, pleaded not guilty to false accounting between 2013 and 2016, reported the Telegraph.
The alleged financial wrongdoing occurred between 2012 and 2016 at the fee-paying institution for 16 to 18-year-olds, which is known for its outstanding academic results.
Magistrate Wayne Mortimer released all three on bail and sent the case to Cardiff Crown Court for a pre-trial hearing on May 6. The Sarwars were ordered not to contact each other as a condition of their bail.
The college has since changed ownership, with its former overseeing charity now operating as the Cardiff Educational Endowment Trust, which operates as a grant making charity rather than running educational institutions.
