Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to The Sun website, the Government is to tell cops to prosecute shoplifters stealing under £200 worth of goods after retailers complained that smaller thefts are ignored by police.

A Home Office report found that 70% of retailers rated the police response to shop crime as “poor” or “very poor”.

The Property Industry Eye website reports that the man who set up bogus companies to defraud two of his employers – Yopa Property and Camelot UK Lotteries – has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.
Haroon Cassim submitted invoices for work and services that were not provided

According to the Derbyshire Live website, a dental worker was paid double her salary for around two years after drawing up a fake employment contract.

Tracey Topliss either forged her boss’s signature, or got someone else to, on a contract that stated she was being paid £70,000 per year.

The Warrington Guardian website reports that a shoplifter stole thousands of pounds worth of goods from a branch of Boots on one day.

Sarah Gillam – jailed for 20 weeks – took an estimated £2,500 of fragrances and was arrested when she returned to the store a week later.

According to the Evening Standard website, a City bank executive splashed out on fast cars, designer watches, and jewellery after swindling his employer out of almost £3 million.

Simon Olver – jailed for four-and-a-half years – was employed as head of finance, accounting, reporting and tax and siphoned corporate ‘tax payments’ into his own account.

According to the Public Technology website, fraud perpetrated against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [FCO] last year amounted to over £130,000 and included an online shopping spree and the unsolved theft of £50,000-worth of expensive antique clocks from its London headquarters.