A former civil servant and his wife have tonight been found guilty of pocketing almost $543,000 of taxpayers' money, following a three-month trial.Kyril Burrows, 48, and Delcina Bean-Burrows, 49, engaged in what a prosecutor described as "a systematic ripping-off of the people of Bermuda" over the course of several years.They were found guilty of all but one of the 35 charges they faced by the unanimous verdicts of a jury this evening, and have been remanded into custody.The pair sat with their heads bowed during the ten minutes it took for the verdicts to be returned, and showed no visible emotion.Burrows, an architect, took advantage of his position as buildings manager at the Ministry of Works and Engineering to commit the crime.During the trial, the jury heard how he and his wife misappropriated the funds over the period January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2009.Burrows dishonestly submitted invoices in order to get Government to pay for renovations to the private home he shared with his wife in Turkey Hill, St George's.The couple also worked together to funnel taxpayers' cash to Bean-Burrows's companies Ren Tech and Theravisions for work they should never have been paid for.The jury of four men and eight women returned their verdicts after just over seven hours of deliberations.They convicted the couple jointly of 17 charges of cheating Government and obtaining money transfers by deception. They found them not guilty of one charge of obtaining a money transfer by deception.Burrows alone was found guilty of 15 charges of cheating, obtaining money transfers by deception, obtaining property by false pretences, money laundering and false accounting.His wife alone was convicted of two charges of money laundering.Following the verdicts, Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons ordered pre-sentence reports and remanded the defendants into custody until they are sentenced at a later date.The maximum sentence they could face is 20 years for money laundering, with a maximum of ten years on most of the other counts.