Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Hull Daily Mail website reports that a teenage Argos employee used fraudulent refunds and price reductions to scam her employer out of thousands of pounds.

Ashleigh Handley transferred a £5,000 “refund” into her own bank account and reduced Apple products to pennies through the tills.

As reported on the North Somerset Times website, Benjamin Thornton – a former RBS manager – was given an 40-month jail term for stealing £190,000 over a three-and-a-half year period.

Thornton took cash from the bank and hid the shortfall by moving money around within RBS so his deceit remained hidden.

The Bolton News website reports that a nursery manager stole £58,000 from her employer and used some of the money to pay for her son’s wedding.

A court heard that Hazel Leece carried out numerous thefts over five years – a fraudulent £78 spend at M&S led to many further discrepancies being uncovered.

According to Yahoo! News, a former doctor’s practice manager has been jailed after defrauding the surgery she worked for of almost £600,000.

Carolyn Lightwing transferred £596,000 into personal bank accounts she had set up while falsely claiming to be a supplier to the surgery.

The Liverpool Echo website reports that an office manager at a tech company in Warrington stole £228,000-worth of postage stamps and printer cartridges, in what was described as an ‘industrial scale’ scam.

Karen Belton used her employer’s business accounts to over-order huge quantities of both items, before selling them on eBay.

According to the Ely Standard website, a fraudster who swindled almost £350,000 out of the NHS has been ordered to pay back the majority of his ill-gotten gains.

Phillip Hufton was ordered under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) to pay back a total sum of £294,747 or face another three years in prison.