A Cambridge academic who fraudulently claimed almost £2.8 million in government grants has been ordered to pay £1.3 million back from his crimes or face another eight-and-a-half years in prison.
Dr Ehsan Abdi-Jalebi claimed government funds allocated to develop renewable energy projects and siphoned the money into his own accounts using fake documents.
The National Crime Agency started an investigation into Dr Abdi-Jalebi after he was...