Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Argus website reports that a bookkeeper stole thousands of pounds from her employer to fund luxury holidays, handbags, and expensive trips to London.

Lynn Boakes set up a fake company to pay invoices worth more than £100,000 to herself from architecture firm Southfield Structural Services.

The Ham & High website reports that an employee of a long-established butchers which has featured in the BBC drama Killing Eve stole £1,800 in cash from the shop’s till.

Lee Rafis – employed by Kent & Sons butchers for 11 years – took the cash in less than a month, whilst cashing up at the end of each working day.

The Leicestershire Live website reports that a Tesco cashier stole £6,000 from the supermarket by pocketing £500 wads of cash rather than sending them to the safe to be banked.

Snehal Chevada was responsible for counting up the cash at the end of the day, stuffing separate envelopes with amounts of £500.

The North Wales Live website reports that an ex-police officer has been jailed for defrauding a shooting estate of £15,000.

Desmond Downs was employed to expand the sale of all terrain vehicles (ATVs), and was given passwords to eBay and PayPal accounts, a court was told.

According to North Wales Live, a woman swindled £9,000 by forging the signatures of colleagues on till rolls and pocketing money which was apparently refunded.

Clio Jones had worked for the hardware retailer Stermat since she was 14 years old but over 13 shirt months had “abused her position of trust” by stealing the money during cashing up sessions.

The Telegraph & Argus website reports that a Morrison’s employee loaded 41 million points onto two bogus loyalty card in a £42,000 fraud.

Nathan King worked in the customer services department at the supermarket giant’s Bradford HQ and used the scam to buy expensive electrical items that he sold online to pay off debts and treat his family.