THE case of two men accused of fraud centred on a £1m Mirfield mansion will continue next week.

A jury at Leeds Crown Court will be hearing further evidence against the Yaqoob brothers.

The court has been told the pair obtained money to carry out extensive renovations on a house in Huddersfield Road, Mirfield.

Prison governor Mohammed Mahmood Yaqoob, 35, lied three times in the space of four years so that the home could be bought, re-mortgaged and renovated, the court was told.

His brother, Mohammed Azam Yaqoob, 40, was allegedly pocketing the benefits of the fraudulently obtained cash for the home and then making payments to Mahmood.

Mahmood, a senior operational manager, or governor, at Armley Prison in Leeds, had made a claim for a £500,000 mortgage to renovate Azam's home in Mirfield, in March 2007.

The court was told that the Abbey had provisionally accepted the application when he put down that he was earning £123,500.

The funds were never released after police launched an investigation into the brothers and arrested them the following month. At that time Mahmood earned just over £42,000 a year.

Prosecutor Graham Reeds said: “Azam treated this house as though it was his property but in actual fact the legal title was invested in Mahmood.’’

Mahmood, of Ravensthorpe, denies acquiring criminal property and three counts of fraud. Azam, also of Ravensthorpe, denies three charges of theft, two counts of money laundering and one of fraud.