Category Archives: Employee Fraud

According to the Rotherham Avdvertiser, a supermarket manager stole nearly £7,000 from his company by placing fake electrical orders and then sold the items illegally on eBay.

Martin Copley – who had worked for Tesco for 15 years – ordered nine electrical items including tablets and mobile phones to collect at his store and then requested a refund online.

As reported in The Telegraph, a Royal Marines musician stole £19,000 worth of instruments from his military band and sold them on eBay after he fell heavily into debt.

Adrian Higginson started to steal instruments in March 2015 and took eight saxophones, two clarinets, a cornet, a horn and a Focusrite amplifier, advertising them online under his own name.

BBC News reports that a former Dundee City Council IT officer who stole more than £1m from the authority has been jailed for five years and four months.

Mark Conway exploited a loophole in the council’s computer systems, stealing the money over almost seven years, after running up debts on gambling websites.

The News & Star reports that a convicted fraudster who concocted a false CV to get a high-paid job has had his jail term slashed.

James Alexander Hayden Cox, also submitted faked references to land a £65,000-a-year role at Britain’s Energy Coast and forged a signature to steal more than £40,000 of the company’s cash.

According to the Evening Standard, the daughter of a retired British Army general was caught stuffing £50 notes into her sock whilst working as a casino croupier.

Sarah Clarke used sleight of hand to grab the cash while counting up at the end of her shift at the Sportsman Casino in Marylebone.

According to the Burton Mail, almost £80,000 worth of sat-navs were stolen from Derbyshire car giant Toyota and then sold on eBay by a cleaner.

Juris Jakimjonoks systematically took the systems from the shelves as he walked from the office to the restaurant as part of his cleaning round and admitted he was “motivated by greed”.