Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Manchester Evening News reports that a trusted bank worker has been jailed after secretly siphoning cash into accounts belonging to her relatives.

When Helen Farrell was questioned by her bosses at Barclays bank, she couldn’t account for more than £97,000.

Kent Online reports that a ferry worker faked vital documents about passenger numbers in a fraud which netted him £20,000.

DFDS Seaways employee, Matthew Jackon – a deputy manifest officer – sold tickets but then stole cash from drivers arriving at the port.

An assistant head teacher stole school text books worth more than £27,000 and sold them on eBay.

Clare Hughes took books from storerooms, classrooms, and even staff members, before selling them online.

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.