Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The BBC News website reports that a business analyst has been jailed for stealing more than £700,000 from his employer, Oxford Bus Company.

As one of the staff responsible for recording money on to a computer system once it had been counted, Colin Smart took the sum between May 2010 and March 2017.

According to the Real Business website, invoice fraud is on the rise, as technology brings with it new opportunities for fraudsters as well as for legitimate businesses.

Recent research found that UK SMEs are losing more than £9bn through invoice fraud every year, amounting to £1,658 per SME.

According to the Manchester Evening News, a department store worker stole luxury, designer brands worth over £5,000 over the course of one month.

William Townsend stole to fund his gambling habit, after initially planning to buy the items using his 35% staff discount and sell them on at a profit.

As reported in the Leicester Mercury, a thieving hospital nurse stole up to £10,000 worth of items ranging from scouring pads to computers and cameras.

Toby Brownson started working at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1994 and over the next 20 years he helped himself to pillows, biscuits, a printer, bed sheets and batteries.

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports that a betting shop worker stole thousands from his employer and lost it all by gambling at a rival bookmaker.

Gambling addict Craig Wallace was deputy manager of a Coral shop when he lost more than £3,000 of his employer’s money.

As reported in The Sun, the owner of a children’s clothing boutique paid herself business cash using the shop’s chip and pin machine.

Katie Lowcock processed fake ‘refunds’ to put cash onto her own personal bank card, and police were called when the card machine’s operators became worried they would not be paid.