Category Archives: Employee Fraud

As reported on Legal Futures, a cashier who took nearly £750,000 from a City law firm has been jailed for more than three years.

Juliette Holland, who was employed in the company’s finance department, ordered foreign currency using an in-house exchange service, which was part of her role.

A story in the South Wales Evening Post gives details of a shop worker who stole more than £2,000 from his employer by carrying out bogus refunds for goods and pocketing the cash.

Toby Levy rang 110 transactions through the tills at the Rugby Heaven shop in Swansea, issuing refunds for sports goods that had never actually been sold.

The Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard reports that a woman who worked as personal assistant to the head of a law firm, has admitted stealing almost £1.3million from her employer – and gambling most of it away.

Portuguese born Sandra Rebeira bought a BMW, a speedboat and a house in Portugal with some of the stolen funds but gambled most of it on online betting sites.

The Liverpool Echo carries a story of a supermarket worker who stole £10,000 worth of ink cartridges and sold them on eBay.

James Worrall also helped himself to Blu-Ray discs over the four years he worked at an ASDA store in Bootle.

According to the Linlithgow Gazette, a shop assistant stole £75,000-worth of golf gear from his employer and sold it on eBay.

Ross Ewen made £27,870 selling the designer clothing online at discount prices – and squandered the cash on his gambling habit – getting away with a scam for nearly three years.

As reported in the Midweek Herald, a compulsive hoarder stole so much from a discount store where he worked, that police could barely get inside his home.

Stephen Pring stole so many beds, furniture, garden ornaments, kitchen units and electrical items from B&M in Exeter that the items filled every room of his home.