Category Archives: Employee Fraud

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.

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.