Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports that a wages clerk defrauded a Huddersfield-based plastics firm.

A court heard that Vicky Knott stole up to £120,000 from the business over three years, despite being employed to safeguard the firm’s financial interests.

BBC News reports that a convicted fraudster has admitted lying to get a job at an energy firm he then defrauded of more than £40,000.

James Cox made up references and a CV to land the £65,000 finance director role at Britain’s Energy Coast (BEC).

A sea cadets volunteer in Northumberland stole a number of kayaks, sails, wetsuits and musical instruments from the organisation and sold them on eBay.

Paul Erskine had got into financial difficulties, and went to steal items worth over £3,000 from the cadets and a neighbouring sports club, which he listed on the online auction site to raise money.

The Bury Free Press reports that a Halfords employee stole more than £2,300 from his employer by copying customer receipts and paying refunds into his own bank account.

Liam Crook of Bury St Edmunds, pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position at Bury Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

As reported in Metro, a jailed personal assistant who stole thousands from her employer to fund her £1,000-a-day gambling habit has been ordered to repay the money.

Elizabeth Fawcett was jailed for helping herself to more than £40,000 using her company American Express card – issued to her by Cassidian UK, part of Airbus – her employer at the time.

As reported in the Bristol Post, a hospital housekeeper sold stolen medical supplies online to help fund treatment for his autistic son.

Maciej Rodziewicz was rumbled when an eBay customer bought nicotine patches that were marked ‘Property of Bristol Royal Infirmary’.