Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The ITV News website reports that a general manager who stole £240,000 worth of stock, admitted his crime in a text message.

Craig Williams fraudulently sold his employer’s stock and tried to cover his tracks by providing inaccurate stock takes and deliberately mismanaging the company’s records.

As reported on the Business Matters Magazine website, shoplifting offences are soaring, with criminals seemingly operating “without fear of apprehension.”

The Office for National Statistics reported a 30% increase in annual shoplifting offences, with 443,995 incidents recorded in the year to March 2024.

The Mail Online website reveals that just 12 organised crime gangs are allegedly behind a quarter of all shoplifting offences across England and Wales.

A joint operation between police and retailers has revealed that some foreign offenders working for gangs are flying in to steal on budget flights.

According to the BBC News website, the head of security at the Planet Organic chain has said the company loses “£900,000 a year” from shoplifting.

Richard Fowler said some shoppers feel “entitled” to steal from the chain, because they shop there regularly.

The BBC News website reports that a serial fraudster stole nearly £600,000 from his employer after lying to a recruitment agency to get his job.

Andrew Maxted took the money from the building company, where he worked as an accountant, to buy luxury cars and holidays.

According to the Northumberland Gazette website, over 3,800 non-compliant disposable vapes have been seized from a premises in Ashington.

Officers were tipped off by received intelligence that the shop was supplying vaping products with puff counts over ten times the legal limit.