Category Archives: Employment Screening

The Argus website reports that a bookkeeper stole thousands of pounds from her employer to fund luxury holidays, handbags, and expensive trips to London.

Lynn Boakes set up a fake company to pay invoices worth more than £100,000 to herself from architecture firm Southfield Structural Services.

The Manchester Evening News website reports that a trainee worker at Manchester Airport lied on his CV when applying for a job as a security guard.

Ryan Warmbold – a former special constable – had used his old inspector as a referee, but had created a false email address in the officer’s name and wrote his own reference.

According to the BBC News website, a bogus psychiatrist prescribed medication to 164 patients at one mental health trust.

Zholia Alemi – jailed in 2018 for fraud – worked around the UK and for the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT), despite being unqualified.

The HR News website reports that students are being warned of the risks of sharing selfies holding their degree certificates.

Graduates taking photos and sharing them on social media provides an opportunity for counterfeiters to copy the latest university logos, crests, signatories, stamps, holograms and wording.

Mail Online reports that Sudip Sarker – currently serving a six year sentence for fraud after he exaggerated his experience in order to dupe bosses and land a lucrative job – has been told he is to be stripped of assets to recover the cost of the salary he should never have received in the first place.

The Argus website reports that a teacher has been sacked and banned from teaching after lying about his degree on his CV.

Craig Bozic, a maths teacher for nearly a year at King’s School in Hove, said he had a 2.1 degree to get a job.