Category Archives: Employee Fraud

As reported in The Mirror, a woman with cancer stole £600,000 from her employer to fuel her luxury lifestyle, taking the huge sum by transferring small payments to her account, over years.
Kathryn Jones, an administration assistant at Technical Plastics Limited, had main access to employees’ wages and expenses.

The Southern Daily Echo reports that a student ‘systematically’ stole more than £20,000 from a branch of TK Maxx in Winchester.

Mizael de Medeiros – jailed for 16 months – admitted stealing money and goods from the store just weeks after starting a job there.

The Sun reports that a lawyer stole clients’ money to fund a conman who claimed to be a multi-millionaire, but was actually a penniless bankrupt.

Rose Egarr worked for a Wigan firm and Michael Milner became her ‘Number One Client’, claiming he was a leading figure in the war against organised crime.

The Derbyshire Times reports that a conwoman who had previously swindled pet owners out of thousands of pounds, has been jailed for stealing cash from Greggs.

Emma Bent was jailed for fraud in 2011, but Greggs did not ask her if she had any previous convictions when she filled out her job application.

An article on the Personnel Today website addresses the need for business boardrooms to act to protect themselves from the “internal threat”.

The average loss for a UK company with fewer than 100 employees from a single incident of fraud is £150,000 and companies with more than 100 employees are hit by average losses of £78,000 from a single fraud event, according to a report as part of the Nations Global Fraud Study 2018.

As reported on the Derbyshire Live website, a former finance manager who stole £17,000 from her employer has 12 weeks to cough up more than £5,000 – or face another prison term.

Teresa Clay handed almost £6,000 of her ill-gotten gains to her son before she was arrested and jailed for taking cash from Farsight Recruitment. in Derby.