Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Ipswich Star website reports that CCTV caught a barman stealing money – estimated to be in the thousands of pounds – while working at a popular riverside pub in Suffolk.
The landlord of the pub noticed that money was going missing and patrons had reported suspicious behaviour by Shane Stocker.

The Star website reports that a payroll administrator stole over half-a-million pounds from her architect employers over a seven-year period.

Jennifer Green was promoted with responsibility for the payroll in 2011 and 2012 and began linking payments from a related bank account to her own personal account.

The Worksop Guardian website reports that a council’s finance officer stole more than £60,000 to help pay off her accumulated credit card debts.

Over a 12-month period, Kerry Wheatley diverted refunds of business rates, due to be paid to a number of businesses, into a single bank account.

According to the carehome.co.uk website, a care home administrator stole £130,000 from her employers, including £7,100 from an 81-year-old resident.

Tammy Foster – jailed for just two years – paid herself higher wages and transferred £116,000 to her own account that she said had been owed to suppliers.

The BBC News website reports that a council supervisor stole smoke alarms and other equipment and sold them on eBay to try to pay off a £65,000 gambling debt.

Iain Gardyne stole more than 200 separate items over a four-year period, which had an estimated value of between £5,000 and £10,000.

As reported on the York Press website, a cleaning company manager defrauded his company of nearly £10,000 in a scam centred around casual staffing.

A court heard that Joao Manuel Cete found staff and paid them cash in hand with company money without his employer’s knowledge or consent.