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According to the GetSurrey website, a former pub manager has avoided prison despite stealing more than £22,000 from his employers to fund his cocaine habit.

Martin Slocombe, former manager of The Blue Ball in Walton-on-Thames, only had his criminal activity uncovered after he failed to attend a meeting of pub managers.

A story on Mail Online shows a video of a shoplifter brazenly stealing a trolley-load of groceries whilst wearing a high-visibility vest.

The thief is being hunted by police after casually strolling out of a Sainsbury’s store with a trolley filled with items, with a value of more than £500.

Gazette Live reports that a former office manager almost ruined her employer by embezzling £48,000 in bank transfers and cash over a two-year period.

Nicola Leadstone pocketed about £500 a week belonging to a small Middlesbrough family company, Heatpac, almost sending it into liquidation.

According to Sky News, police have shut down 28,000 websites selling counterfeit goods to British consumers – more than 4,000 of which were set up using identities stolen from other customers.

One victim unknowingly had her identity stolen and fake websites were set up in her name, selling more counterfeit goods.

According to Worcester News, a fraudster stole more than £100,000 to fund his gambling addiction betraying kind-hearted business owners who treated him ‘like family’.

Kelvin Bradley brought the cable company, Rhinocables, to the brink of ruin, forcing the owners to remortgage their home.

The Ipswich Star reports that corporate employee fraud cost businesses in the East of England more than £6.3m last year.

Nationally, losses from employee fraud amounted to more than £40m, according to the data from ActionFraud, the UK’s national fraud and cyber-crime reporting centre.