Category Archives: Employee Fraud

As reported in The Sun, a warehouse boss stole nearly £30,000 worth of stock by secretly posting parcels to himself to sell on.

Daniel Butler stole 800 items including electricals, toys and games from Electrolve Ltd and ran his own online business from his home.

SomersetLive reports that a former mayor of Bruton and town councillor has admitted in court that he shoplifted after descending into a spiral of depression.

Alex Rubbo had started drinking in a bid to self-medicate his problems and then helped himself to cigarettes and alcohol from the branch of Spar where he was working.

As reported on the Economia website, British companies have reported more incidences of fraud and cyber crime than any other country in the world, behind only Colombia.

According to Kroll’s Global Fraud and Risk Report, the most common types of fraud in the UK were theft of physical assets and the misappropriation of funds, with most fraudsters coming from inside the company.

An employee of a Savills letting agency swindled her employer out of around £16,000, taking cash received as tenants’ deposits.

Julie Feilden, a lettings administrator, was made redundant from the Newmarket branch in 2015, but asked if she could take the books home to get them up-to-date.

According to Wales Online, the deputy manager of a designer menswear store in Cardiff stole jackets worth more than £1,000 before selling them online.
Scott Jones was caught after the German manufacturer contacted the distributor, who then set up a trap on a Facebook page.

BBC News reports that an accountant stole £315,000 from her employers and spent it on fur coats, designer clothes and handbags.

Julie Sexton-Blythe joined Reliable Stamping in June 2014 and created two accounts with names similar to established clients, allowing her to go undetected for more than a year.