Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Chronicle Live website reports that a former bank worker has admitted stealing more than £1.3m from her employers.

Laura Matthews transferred a total of £1,309,719.67p into her own account, over a six-year period whilst working for Virgin Money.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.