Category Archives: Employee Fraud
Man Stole £34k To Repay Cocaine Debt
As reported on the Liverpool Echo website, Robert Adamson swindled his employer out of more than £34,000 over two months, in order to meet his cocaine debts.
A court heard that Adamson had turned to crime after his dealers made serious threats and his car was smashed up outside his home.
read moreThief Ordered To Repay Over £100k
The Dorset Live website reports that a convicted fraudster who stole nearly £500,000 from her employer, has been ordered to repay £120,000.
Emma Elizabeth Rhodes was sentenced to five years in prison in November 2020, after defrauding £437,431.68 from Norco Holdings.
read moreFinance Officer Stole £27k
The Northern Echo website reports that a finance officer transferred nearly £27,000 of clients’ payments into her own bank account over a 13-month period.
Making 62 fraudulent transactions, Gillian Burke then removed evidence of the payments from the company’s computer system.
read more£100k Employee Stole £250k
The Liverpool Echo website reports that a highly-paid managing director stole more than £250,000 from his employer, in a ‘brazen fraud, cleverly disguised by false accounting’.
Adrian Platt raised false purchase orders between is employers and his friend, Bernard Giam, who then produced invoices claiming his companies had supplied environmental consultancy services.
read moreParcelforce Driver Stole 244 Packages
The Wales Online website reports that a Parcelforce driver stole 244 items in three months, selling them on eBay and netting him over £14,000.
Michal Biernacki stole mostly high-value electrical, cosmetic and designer clothing products, worth more than £31,000.
read moreThief Stole £27k Plus Petty Cash Tin
The Kent Online website reports that a woman set out to ‘destroy’ the publishing company where she worked, by stealing thousands of pounds in a year.
Ruthless Selena Cronin knowingly deleted computer files, shredded documents and even pocketed the petty cash tin on the day she quit.
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