'Tiger mum' accused of defrauding Britain's top A-level private school out of £5m appears in court

A hubby and woman person appeared successful tribunal accused of defrauding Britain's apical schoolhouse for A-level results retired of much than £5million from its foundation fund.

Yasmin Sarwar, 43, from Cyncoed, opened Cardiff Sixth Form College successful 2004 and claims to person 'helped implicit 800 students' summation admittance into immoderate of the UK's astir illustrious universities.

But determination were said to person been irregularities successful the school's finances betwixt 2012 and 2016 - starring South Wales Police to motorboat an authoritative investigation. 

It led to the self-confessed 'Tiger Mum' and her hubby Nadeem Sarwar, 49, being charged with aggregate theft and fraud offences against the school.

Ms Sarwar became caput of the college's foundation - and it roseate to fertile supra illustrious Rugby and Marlborough schools with pupils travelling each implicit satellite to instrumentality apical A-levels.

Cardiff Court Court heard the mates allegedly utilized implicit £496,000 from the schoolhouse to bargain a spot successful a leafy suburb of the Welsh superior portion besides utilizing much funds for refurnishing.

They are besides accused of transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds into antithetic slope accounts and possessing transgression spot relating to £4,100,000 of pupil fees betwixt 2012 and 2016.

At the clip they were charged, constabulary said a probe into the assemblage had been jointly carried retired with the Charity Commission.

Ms Sarwar, of Cyncoed, Cardiff, pleaded not blameworthy to fraud, 2 counts of theft, 2 counts of fraudulent trading, possessing transgression spot and 3 counts of transferring transgression property.

Mr Sarwar, of Pentwyn, Cardiff, pleaded not blameworthy to fraud, 3 counts of theft and 5 counts of possessing transgression property.

A 3rd idiosyncratic - Ragu Sivapalan, 40, from Penylan, Cardiff - denied mendacious accounting betwixt 2013 and 2016.

Judge Tracey Lloyd Clarke acceptable a proceedings day for September 1 adjacent year.

Mother-of-one Ms Sarwar moved from Malaysia to Britain to survey for her ain A-levels erstwhile she was conscionable 17.

At the clip her schoolhouse was named the champion successful Britain for A-level results, she said: 'I americium a parent to the students.

'I privation to marque a quality successful their lives and them to past marque a quality successful different people's lives.

'To make that quality successful idiosyncratic else's beingness you request to make that spot - and accidental I americium present for you due to the fact that I care.'

After graduating with a Biochemistry grade from Cardiff University Mrs Sarwar started posting fliers offering her tutoring services for subject classes to A-levels.

Ten years aboriginal she launched what would spell connected to beryllium the UK's apical performing fee-paying schoolhouse wherever 95 per cent of pupils achieved A-A* successful their A-levels past year.

She aboriginal said parents spot her arsenic a 'mother figure' and 'somebody they tin spot with their children'.

Cardiff Sixth Form College has much than 300 students connected its registry and attracts children from each astir the world, including Albania and China.

Fees astatine the schoolhouse were £15,000 per twelvemonth for time pupils portion planetary boarding students tin wage up to £26,000 each year.

A South Wales Police spokesperson said: 'Cardiff Sixth Form College has since changed hands.

'Since the merchantability of the College the foundation changed its sanction to Cardiff Educational Endowment Trust - 1123262 and is present operating arsenic a assistance making charity.'