Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Chad website reports that a glamorous fraudster stole around £115,000 in various ways, including increasing her own salary, making personal purchases on company credit cards and transferring cash into her own account, before blowing thousands on jewellery and beauty products.

BBC News reports that a finance worker stole more than £130,000 from her employer to fund her “lavish lifestyle”.

Claire Johnston – jailed for 20 months – used the proceeds of her crimes to pay for her wedding, holidays, weekends away and designer footwear.

The Evening Standard reports that a school business manager stole £220,000 to fund the purchase of a fleet of taxis in The Gambia with her boyfriend.

Over six months in 2011, Kirsty Holmes and her partner Sunday Kalu cashed cheques from Battersea Park School in London.

The Northern Echo reports that the treasurer of a motor club who stole almost £67,000 to fund a gambling addiction has been ordered to repay just £731.

Gambling addict Elizabeth Russell’s employer – Richmond Motor Club – was almost bankrupted by her dishonesty.

The Sun reports that an office manager stole £200,000 from her company and spent it on cars, holidays – and meeting TV celebrities Ant and Dec.

Amanda Toward bid for tickets with access to the TV pair at a charity auction, as well as spending her ill-gotten gains on a Range Rover and a lavish lifestyle.

The Carlisle News & Star reported that a man stole specialist equipment whilst working at the Sellafield nuclear plant and sold it on eBay.

Nicholas Hanna – employed as an instrument mechanic – stole two pressure calibrators potentially worth almost £20,000 and then duped a friend into letting him use an eBay account to sell the items.