Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Evening Standard reports that a claims manager at a leading insurer used profits from a £500,000 five-year fraud to pay for his wedding day.

James Cunnington cleared his debts, splashed out on trips abroad and paid for his marriage to wife Jenny with the stolen money.

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.

According to the Daily Post, three couples who stole thousands of pounds worth of property in a “sophisticated and professional” shoplifting expedition have been jailed.

The gang, all from Dublin in Ireland were arrested as they made their way back to Holyhead with over £10,000-worth of goods in their cars.

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.