Category Archives: Employee Fraud

According to The Sun, a department store worker stole £3,000 worth of designer clothes and sold them on the black market to fund his drug habit.

Jake Coxon was caught after suspicious managers installed spy cameras in the stockroom of the Manchester branch of Selfridges.

The Slough & South Bucks Express reports that two men who faked a robbery to steal £7million for themselves have been found guilty of conspiracy to steal.

Former security guards Mohammed Siddique and Ranjeev Singh staged the robbery while working for a cash handling company in an attempt to steal 19 bags of cash which was due to be transported to the Bank of Ireland.

According to the GetSurrey website, a former pub manager has avoided prison despite stealing more than £22,000 from his employers to fund his cocaine habit.

Martin Slocombe, former manager of The Blue Ball in Walton-on-Thames, only had his criminal activity uncovered after he failed to attend a meeting of pub managers.

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.