Philip Bujak, who was at the helm of the Montessori St Nicholas charity from 2003 until mid-2014, is jointly accused of the alleged property con with several business associates.
Bujak, 56, along with three other men and a woman married to one of the defendants, are variously charged with crimes including corporate credit card and invoice fraud, spanning at least seven years while he was chief executive of the charity.
Montessori passed information to the City of London Police in November 2014, which sparked the investigation and led to the arrest of Mr Bujak in January last year.
Mr Bujak, of Haywards Heath, East Sussex, is charged with two counts of conspiracy to defraud. He is further charged with furnishing false information relating to accounts, and two counts of fraud by false representation.
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