Category Archives: Employee Fraud

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.

Gloucestershire Live reports that an accounts manager at an adventure holiday firm defrauded her employers out of nearly £100,000 in a bid to win the ‘affection and love’ of her children and new partner.

When Denise O’Connor resigned in February 2017, the company did not want her to go and threw a leaving party for her, but her successor then discovered a large number of suspicious transactions.

Stoke On Trent Live reports that a health care assistant stole nearly £3,000 from her employer by putting false items through the till and pocketing the cash.

Afshah Mahmood committed the fraud at a branch of Lloyds Pharmacy – just months after she was handed a conditional caution for stealing from the same company.

Kent Online reports that a shop worker who stole goods and cash worth £9,000 whilst working at TK Maxx was only caught after an internal investigation.

Jane Stockford took money from tills and refunded clothes she had stolen to gain the funds back.

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.