Category Archives: Employee Fraud

SomersetLive reports that a ‘greedy’ teenager stole bikes and biking equipment when he was working for The Bicycle Chain in Bridgwater.

Alex Long started work at the shop in July 2015, and suspicions were raised when the shop’s owner noticed that a bike had gone missing.

As reported in the Oxford Mail, a hotel night manager stole nearly £17,000 of his employer’s money in an attempt to woo a man he wanted to be his lover.

Deanardo Blacklaws worked at the Oxford Belfry Hotel in Milton Common for two months in 2016 and, within days of starting the role, began an elaborate scheme to charm a man he was ‘besotted’ with.

The East Anglian Daily Times carries a story of four Asda checkout operators who stole hundreds of items in a “skim-scanning” fiddle.

Rachel Hassall, Angelina Mosley, Sally-Anne Sadler and Tracey Tate helped each other to avoid paying for items by “elevating” them over the scanning devices at checkouts.

According to Mail Online, an accountant claimed she stole £122,000 after becoming frustrated at being overlooked for promotion because she was ‘from outside the UK’.

Diana Vysniauskiene took the money from S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting Ltd – a cyber security firm – using her ill-gotten gains to pay for lavish trips abroad.

Lincolnshire Live reports that a former manager of a tea room who stole thousands of pounds from her boss has been ordered to pay back almost £20,000.

Lucy Hockney stole the cash when she worked at Grayz Tea Rooms in Lincoln, having been “presented as a very good, capable and trustworthy person”, by the owner of the business.

A 24-year-old bank worker took part in a “sophisticated fraud” which saw scammers steal millions of pounds from rich customers using a string of impersonators.

Molly Jones scoured computer systems at Lloyds Bank for rarely-accessed accounts holding large sums of money before passing the details to a criminal gang.