Category Archives: Employee Fraud

According to the Lincolnshire Live website, a worker at Lincoln County Hospital stole items from his employer worth thousands of pounds to sell on eBay.

John O’Keefe stole a cardiac heart rhythm monitor, a medical gas alarm, tools, and items such as locks which he sold using the name “Trusted Trader 77″.

According to the Derby Telegraph website, a former chef at a well-known, multi award-winning, pub in Derby city centre broke into it and stole more than £7,000.

Alex Haslam broke into the Exeter Arms, made his way to an office where he knew cash was kept and took it, along with his former workmates’ tip money.

According to the Yorkshire Live website, a gambler became so desperate for money he resorted to selling his employer’s company car.

Less six months after joining the company, Adnan Afzal asked the fleet manager for the vehicle’s logbook and told him that he was applying for a parking permit.

According to Mail Online, an officer manager lied that she’d just had a baby to avoid prison after stealing £7,700 from work to fund her cocaine habit.

Heather McCarthy used the fictitious birth to make a tearful plea for mercy last November, and was given a suspended sentence as the judge was reluctant to separate the mother from her child.

According to the North Wales Live website, a man stole more than £5,000 worth of van stock and sold it on eBay for bargain prices when his employer wouldn’t give him a pay rise.

Ian James Relish made more than £3,000 over 14 months, selling items he stole from Protect My Property, a company that supplies security items.

The Manchester Evening News website reports a fraudster stole more than £136,000 from a solicitor’s firm using the bank account of an elderly client with dementia.
Sarah Aikenhead stole so much money that the company almost went out of business, spending the cash on holidays, designer clothes and her wedding.