Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Bournemouth Echo website reports that an employee stole stock worth over £54k before selling it on eBay during the height of the COVID pandemic.

Steven Keith Fugatt started stealing in March 2020 and his thieving continued for more than a year, which caused significant harm to his employer’s business model.

The South Wales Argus reports that an employee stole more than £1.3 million from a family business to fund a “ridiculous” gambling addiction and pay for lavish holidays.

Alison Smith was employed as a financial manager at Eiran Civil Engineering Ltd and defrauded the company for nearly a decade.

According to the Hull Live website, an employee stole £100,000 from her employer over a five-year period, to fund a lavish ‘Instagram’ lifestyle.

Laura Howarth officially earned just over £900 a month as a finance assistant but stole every week, taking her fraudulent ‘salary’ up to an eye-watering £6,000 a month.

The Chronicle Live website reports that an employee was caught selling at least £16,000-worth of stolen works tools on eBay.

Leslie Pattinson stole expensive equipment over a two-week period and uploaded details to the online auction site, before a colleague spotted them for sale.

The Kent Online website reports that a flip flop shop manager who was ‘desperate to leave his job’ stole £12,000 before vanishing.

Jonathan Kirby repeatedly targeted the Havaianas store for two months, then took leave, claiming he had contracted the coronavirus.

The Staffordshire Live website reports that a thief who stole tens of thousands of pounds worth of copper cabling and transformers has avoided going to jail due to a ‘woeful’ delay in his prosecution.

Mark Robinson stole 20 transformers worth £17,798 plus 680kg of high voltage copper cable worth £3,060.