PHOTO: GOOGLE MAPS The property at 4 Miami St, Mangere East, which tenant Zain Syed illegally sub-let to MSD clients.

A tenant pocketed more than $60,000 in public money by sub-letting his rental to homeless people.

Zain Syed paid $500 per week to live at a property in south Auckland which he then rented out for an average of $3800 per week.

For 16 weeks of the tenancy he did not live at the home at 4 Miami St, Mangere East, according to a recently-released tenancy tribunal order.

Instead, Syed sub-let the home to clients of the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) – which pays for emergency accommodation for people who have nowhere to live.

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