{"id":377,"date":"2016-06-07T19:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/?p=377"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:25:04","slug":"luton-councillor-mohammed-ashraf-found-guilty-falsifying-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/2016\/06\/07\/luton-councillor-mohammed-ashraf-found-guilty-falsifying-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Luton councillor Mohammed Ashraf has been found guilty of falsifying a document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ashraf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-378 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ashraf-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"ashraf\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ashraf-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ashraf.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A serving Luton councillor has been found guilty of falsifying a document in an attempt to trick a trading standards officer from his OWN authority.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Ashraf, 59, fabricated the document to give the impression that his firm, Luton Travel Services, was covered by Air Travel Organisers\u2019 Licensing (ATOL).<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Ashraf, who was previously Luton Borough Council\u2019s portfolio holder for trading standards, has also been convicted of four other charges relating to breaches of ATOL and unfair trading regulations. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dunstabletoday.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/guilty-luton-councillor-convicted-for-faking-document-in-a-bid-to-derail-trading-standards-investigation-by-his-own-council-1-7420235#ixzz4Av1IwZK4\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serving Luton councillor has been found guilty of falsifying a document in an attempt to trick a trading standards officer from his OWN authority. Mohammed Ashraf, 59, fabricated the document to give the impression that his firm, Luton Travel Services, was covered by Air Travel Organisers\u2019 Licensing (ATOL). Cllr Ashraf, who was previously Luton Borough Council\u2019s portfolio holder for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10220698900476085_349663338397715":"","twitter_1370559253_1370559253":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[61,43,125,124,5],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-article","tag-community","tag-luton-concillor","tag-mohammed-ashraf","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}