Braintree Council executives charged more than £200,000 to ten corporate credit cards over the last four years.
Among the items purchased were £5,171 worth of sandwiches, cakes and other refreshments from supermarkets.
Spending figures reveal Braintree Council’s corporate hierarchy really does favour Tesco, with £2668 spent at the store, £578 more than they splashed out at rivals Sainsbury’s.
Executives also spent £1,690 on train fares when travelling to conferences across the country.
However, the vast majority of the £206,364 spent since 2010 went on court summonses for non-payment of council tax, costing the council £131,639.
Braintree Council has ten corporate credit cards which are issued to chief executive Nicola Beach, the three corporate directors and the heads of finance, audit, housing, operations and IT procurement.
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