Category Archives: Employee Fraud

The Belfast Telegraph reports that two brothers sold over £100,000 worth of stolen parts and accessories from a leading Northern Ireland bicycle retail outlet.

Brian James Bowen admitted selling more than £88,000 worth of bike parts online over six months, whilst his brother, Alan Bowen, sold almost £14,000 of the stolen goods over a four-month period.

According to Mail Online, an IT manager has been jailed for stealing almost £130,000 from his employers so he could ‘fund the extravagant lifestyle of his demanding girlfriend’.

Simon Rey splashed out on goods including flat screen televisions, 40 iPads, laptops and iPhones, charging them to his workplace.

An accounts worker at a firm supplying the NHS took more than £30,000 in less than a year.

Charmaine Moignard admitted siphoning payments off into her personal account and faking statements to mask the fraud totalling £32,460.97, between February 1, 2016 and January 20, 2017.

A woman who carried out a £60,000 mobile phone fraud on her employers was jailed at Lincoln Crown Court.

Amy Theobald worked for a farming industry co-operative and ordered thousands of pounds-worth of mobile phones over a two-year period, claiming they were for members of the organisation.

According to Mail Online, an ex-prison officer who stole £118,000 from cash points was allowed to walk free from court after claiming prisoners would recognise him inside.

Chris Farrow and his colleague Jason Nixon, stole thousands from ATMs while working as delivery drivers across the north of England.

The News & Star reports that a night-shift worker at Argos stole computer games worth over £800 by stuffing them down his trousers.

Peter Sharman stole 23 games – some he sold on and others he kept, so he could use them himself – as he committed what his lawyer admitted was an “utterly stupid” crime.