This is the trendy £2million house where a fraudster civil servant lived while holding down five government jobs and plundering £350,000 of taxpayer money.
Kashim Chowdhury, 56, who was yesterday found guilty of nine counts of fraud after a four-week trial, resided at the six-bedroom property, just off fashionable Brick Lane, while working for multiple government departments including the Home Office and Defra at the same time during a three-year period.
The four-storey 18th century home, bought by his late mother in 1999, is sandwiched by other multimillion pound houses, with some on his street selling for upwards of £4m.
It was here that Chowdhury pretended to work from his bedroom, exploiting the civil service's work from home culture to keep his camera off at almost all times. On the rare occasion he was forced to turn his screen on for a meeting he put on white makeup to feign illness.
The fraudster claimed he had to work from his Grade II-listed house, noted for its 'special historic and architectural interest', to look after his ailing mother Faijun Nessa who was suffering from bowel cancer.
But his three siblings accuse Chowdhury of bullying their mother, who was illiterate and nearly blind before her death, into giving him half of her home.
Kashim Chowdhury, 56, who was yesterday found guilty of nine counts of fraud after a four-week trial, juggled five civil service jobs while living at this six-bedroom East London property
Chowdhury, who has been remanded in custody, is fighting with his siblings who accuse him of bullying their mum into giving him half of her home a week before she died of cancer in 2023
She transferred half of the property into his hands on June 29, 2023, just three days before passing away.
Chowdhury, who lived with his mother but also owns another house with his wife, told his mother he would end up on the street if she split the house evenly between her children.
And the Crown Prosecution Service has already applied to register a charge on the house.
Chowdhury is now the sole resident of the Georgian terrace in London's East End where his late parents lived. Actress Keira Knightley and artists Tracey Emin and Gilbert and George live in the area.
His father was a tailor's machinist and his mother spoke no English but they purchased the house, now worth a tremendous fee, in 1999.
The couple were originally from Pakistan but settled in this country from Bangladesh, where Chowdhury also married his wife whom he met through a relative in 2017.
Chowdhury studied politics and history at university and obtained a master's degree in public policy and management.
He was earning as much as £11,000 in one month while working five jobs.
Yesterday he was remanded into custody after jurors found him guilty of nine counts of fraud worth more than £280,000.
He will be sentenced in January. The maximum sentence for fraud is ten years in prison.
Chowdhury took sick days and holidays in an attempt to manage his workload and keep the ruse going.
His performance was described as extremely poor but he was often handed senior project manager roles with salaries of up to £52,000,
He began working for Tower Hamlets Council in February 2020, before taking a second job with Defra in April 2021.
This was despite him going through the Government's vetting procedures, designed to ensure rogue agents do not make it into Whitehall.
By September 2023, he had taken on eight different full-time jobs with various government departments and public bodies, including the Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care.
At its height, in May 2023, he was being paid for five full-time roles, unbeknown to bosses.
This meant he was contracted to work 183 hours a week – more than the 168 hours which actually exist in seven days.
In all, Chowdury held eight overlapping jobs across the civil service. He never had less than two full-time posts on the go, sometimes three, and at the peak of the fraud, he had five different bosses: at the Department for Environment, Defra; the UK Health Security Agency; the Department for Business and Trade; the Food Standards Agency and the Home Office
At its height he was being paid for five full-time roles. This meant he was contracted to work 183 hours a week – more than the 168 hours which actually exist in seven days
One of these jobs was at the UK Health Security Agency, where his work during his seven-month stint between 2022 and 2023 was described by his project line manager as 'very poor'.
He denied trying to deceive employers, claiming evidence proving his innocence was lost by investigators.
But he was convicted of nine counts of fraud by jurors at Southwark Crown Court after prosecutors said he 'positively lied about his employment history and having other full-time jobs'.