Category Archives: Employee Fraud

Gazette Live reports that a former office manager almost ruined her employer by embezzling £48,000 in bank transfers and cash over a two-year period.

Nicola Leadstone pocketed about £500 a week belonging to a small Middlesbrough family company, Heatpac, almost sending it into liquidation.

According to Worcester News, a fraudster stole more than £100,000 to fund his gambling addiction betraying kind-hearted business owners who treated him ‘like family’.

Kelvin Bradley brought the cable company, Rhinocables, to the brink of ruin, forcing the owners to remortgage their home.

The Ipswich Star reports that corporate employee fraud cost businesses in the East of England more than £6.3m last year.

Nationally, losses from employee fraud amounted to more than £40m, according to the data from ActionFraud, the UK’s national fraud and cyber-crime reporting centre.

A personal claims specialist colluded with an accomplice to make false claims against a contents and building insurance policy, according to Claims Magazine.

Kevin Macey – sentenced to two years jail-time, suspended for two years – worked for RSA and helped Debbie Starkings make five claims over two years which amounted to over £200,000.

Kent Online carried a story of an Asda payroll clerk who boasted her bosses “did not have a clue” that she was paying herself extra wages.

Janette Norman – jailed for two years – fleeced the supermarket giant of £31,070 by reactivating the account profile of an ex-employee and amending the bank details to her own.

According to Mail Online, a district judge plundered nearly £800,000 from customers of his law firm to fund a party lifestyle with his lover.

Simon Kenny and his assistant Emma Coates splashed out on lavish trips while ransacking funds at CK Solicitors in Selsey, West Sussex, over a four year period.