Category Archives: Employee Fraud

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.

According to the Yorkshire Evening Post website, a ‘greedy’ manager stole around £90,000 from the bed company where he worked to fund a lifestyle beyond his means.

Hassan Basser – jailed for 20 months – stole the money over a five-year period, spending a chunk of the ill-gotten gains on a luxury family holiday to Dubai.

The BBC News website reports that a member of Santander’s anti-fraud team has been jailed for selling customers’ details in a £90,000 scam.

Bilal Abbas helped conmen buy Rolex watches and extravagant luxury holidays using stolen account details, leaving unsuspecting businesses out of pocket.