Jeffrey Cook, 67, received around £70,000 in cash payments and cars while employed by the Government department.
A former Ministry of Defence official has been jailed after he was convicted of misconduct in public office for taking secret payments and gifts.
It heard that Cook was in charge of his department’s finances and between 2004 and 2008 committed misconduct in a public office by using his position to commission reports from offshore consultants. A total of £702,800 was sent from the Ministry of Defence to ME Consultants’ Swiss bank account for the reports, the court was told.He received the money in multiple forms including cars and a series of cash payments to his and his wife’s Barclays bank account.Within that period, the official, who started working for the MoD in 1975, also received two cars worth a total of £32,906.
In mitigation, defence barrister Tom Allen KC said: “These are dramatically old offences that are now standing to be dealt with.” The court heard he and his wife have a house in West Wales worth around £500,000 and approximately £145,000 in savings.
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