Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Independent website reports that one in ten independent shops lost more than £10,000 to shoplifting in the last two years.

And, according to the Federation of Small Businesses, even pound shops are having to install new security measures to head off losses in the thousands.

The Coventry Telegraph website reports that police raided a Coventry shop which was reported to be selling stolen goods.

Officers discovered a large amount of stolen coffee, deodorant, medicine, chocolate and washing powder, with Cadbury, Fairy, Colgate and Mars just some of the big-name brands found at the shop.

According to the Mail Online website, blocks of Cathedral City cheddar cheese, costing just £3.85, have become the latest target for shoplifters.

A customer at a Tesco Express in North London spotted a block of the lightly mature cheddar locked away in a security box.

The Mail Online website reports that a pharmacist stole £15,000-worth of prescription weight-loss drugs and shingles vaccines to secretly stock up an online business.

A court heard how Modie Al-Shakarchi set up the fraudulent business to ‘prove himself’ to his high-achieving family.

The Mail Online website reports that a conman who once blew £170,000 of stolen money on a cocaine-fuelled weekend, has been jailed for stealing £90,000 from his new employers.
Darren Carvill changed his surname to Medhurst by deed poll, and landed jobs as a finance assistant at a travel agency and an hotel.

The BBC News website reports that a man has been sentenced for defrauding his employer of £81,000, to partly pay for a house deposit and a car loan.

Muhammad Shafiq stole the money from a media company in Bristol over a period of 18 months, transferring the cash to his own bank account and then to a company he set up.