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BBC News reports that a charity’s accountant has been jailed for stealing more than £2.5m from his employer, Morris Cerullo World Evangelism.

Stephen Ashton falsified invoices and accounts and used the money he stole to pay for his lover’s mortgage and luxury holidays.

The Sentinel reports that fraudster Andrew Salt ripped off his employer to the tune of £142,000 – by stealing car parts and flogging them on eBay.

Salt placed orders for non-existent customers and when the car parts were delivered, he would create a return note, but the goods were never sent back.

The Mirror reports that an NHS manager who was jailed for her part in an elaborate IT fraud was re-employed as a health service worker after using another surname.

Deborah Hancox funded a lavish lifestyle, along with her partner John Leigh, by tricking the NHS into buying goods from their own companies.

According to the Legal Futures website a barrister has been disbarred for lying on her CV about the qualifications she received and her work experience.

Anisah Ahmed submitted a CV that falsely stated that she had been awarded a distinction for a postgraduate law degree and had been awarded a diploma in forensic medicine.

An article on the Retail Sector website claims that nearly half of retail job candidates lie on their CV.

The favourite lies were about educational backgrounds, then work experience fibs, skillset exaggerations, followed by false references and even lying about which languages are spoken.

The Boston Standard reports that a man who owed money to loan sharks stole more than £3,000 from his employer and faked a robbery to cover what he had done.

Steve Beeson, who ran New Horizon Amusements, claimed that the shop had been robbed of £3,100 and acid had been thrown in his face as he opened up.