Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Cambridgeshire Live website reports that a university professor has been suspended after dishonestly claiming two salaries from two universities.

A tribunal heard that Professor Akhilesh Reddy, a medical doctor, was paid by both Cambridge University and University College London (UCL).

As reported on the Evening Express website, a checkout worker stole £1,500 from her employer and was only found out when bosses ordered an audit.

Jessica McKay – employed by Morrisons – was seen on CCTV footage processing transactions when there no customers present.

According to The Irish Sun website, the general manager of a Dublin cinema stole over €200,000 from his employer.

John Connolly told police that he thought he could take the money and put it back, whilst a court heard that at one stage he was one number away from winning €250,000 on the Lotto.

According to the News & Star website, a hotel manager stole more than £107,000 from his employer, through theft and falsifying cash sheets.

Stewart McIntosh, committed the thefts and false accounting while working as a manger at The Graham Arms Hotel, and having day-to-day responsibility for the daily takings.

The BBC News website reports that a Londonderry company nearly collapsed after a former office manager spent £590,000 on online gambling, using corporate credit cards.

On one occasion, Tracey Curran gambled – and lost – £399,000 in winnings in just two days, a court was told.

The Teesside Live website reports that a ketamine-using customer service manager at Coral bookmakers took £1,000 from his employer’s safe to pay off a debt to ‘nasty people’.

Terry O’Neill was a “trusted employee” but stole the money when a customer won £112 from a roulette machine and came to the counter to collect the winnings.