Category Archives: Employee Fraud

Stoke On Trent Live reports that a health care assistant stole nearly £3,000 from her employer by putting false items through the till and pocketing the cash.

Afshah Mahmood committed the fraud at a branch of Lloyds Pharmacy – just months after she was handed a conditional caution for stealing from the same company.

Kent Online reports that a shop worker who stole goods and cash worth £9,000 whilst working at TK Maxx was only caught after an internal investigation.

Jane Stockford took money from tills and refunded clothes she had stolen to gain the funds back.

Kent Online reports that a gambling addict stole car parts from his employer and sold them on eBay during a period of nearly five years, netting over £80,000 in the process.

Robin Lambkin even organised a courier to pick up larger parts from Gefco auto body shop in Sheerness, Kent, whilst taking smaller items in his own rucksack.

The Express reports that an airport worker stole £15,000 worth of jewellery from British Airways over four years, selling the booty on eBay.

Michal Harazinski – jailed for a year – was employed by Gate Gourmet, which is contracted by the airline, and was responsible for loading and unloading boxes off BA flights.

The onlinecasino.co.uk website reports that a former assistant manager of Coral embezzled thousands of pounds after discovering a glitch in the company’s computer system that allowed him to bet on matches after the final whistle had blown.

Gavin Thompson employed friends as proxy gamblers, supplying the stake and processing the transactions while they placed bogus bets at Coral branches in Dundee and Forfar.

The BBC News website reports that a senior NHS manager treated his local trust as his “personal cash machine”, whilst leading a gang who used £650,000 of taxpayers’ money to fund luxury refurbishments on their homes.

Royston Dyke was responsible for overseeing project managers engaged in estate works but siphoned off cash from the NHS trust’s coffers.