Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The BBC News website reports that a man stole more than £48,000 from his parents, girlfriends, friends and employer “without any prejudice or remorse”.

Wayne Skinner – jailed for over five years – used the money to fund “a life way beyond his means”, buying luxury holidays, nights out and Ed Sheeran gig tickets.

As reported on the News Shopper website, a former bank employee who stole more than £74,000 from members of her own family has been jailed for 28 months.

Hien Ly used her position to take large sums of money off the victims and state she was putting it into “investments” and to purchase properties.

The North Wales Live website reports that a storage firm’s general manager swindled his employer out of £56,800, ‘nearly destroying’ the business.

Nick Keenan made large numbers of fraudulent transactions, paying money due to the company directly to his personal account over an 18-month period.

According to the Independent website, a former senior manager for the NHS has been jailed for defrauding hundreds of thousands of pounds from a hospital trust where he worked.

In a sophisticated fraud, Barry Stannard set up two companies which he used to send hundreds of fake invoices to the hospital, which he would then sign off himself.

The Northern Echo website reports that a woman took advantage of her position to steal more than £22,000 to repay debts to a loan shark.

Kay McManus was in charge of overseeing rent accounts for a housing provider, but had acquired a huge gambling debt with extortionate interest rates.

The Devon Live website reports that a ‘model worker’ employed by a food company secretly stole £216,000 from the business to feed his gambling addiction.

Richard Jacobs’ fraud hit J&R Food Services so badly that some employees lost their jobs and others could not be paid bonuses.