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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.

A personal claims specialist colluded with an accomplice to make false claims against a contents and building insurance policy, according to Claims Magazine.

Kevin Macey – sentenced to two years jail-time, suspended for two years – worked for RSA and helped Debbie Starkings make five claims over two years which amounted to over £200,000.

Kent Online carried a story of an Asda payroll clerk who boasted her bosses “did not have a clue” that she was paying herself extra wages.

Janette Norman – jailed for two years – fleeced the supermarket giant of £31,070 by reactivating the account profile of an ex-employee and amending the bank details to her own.

According to the Express & Star, shoplifters are striking twice every day in Walsall town centre, with a councillor worrying the problem is putting struggling businesses under even more pressure.

Between July 2016 and June this year there were 722 reported incidents in the St. Matthews policing area – 60 a month on average.

According to Mail Online, a district judge plundered nearly £800,000 from customers of his law firm to fund a party lifestyle with his lover.

Simon Kenny and his assistant Emma Coates splashed out on lavish trips while ransacking funds at CK Solicitors in Selsey, West Sussex, over a four year period.

According to the Rotherham Avdvertiser, a supermarket manager stole nearly £7,000 from his company by placing fake electrical orders and then sold the items illegally on eBay.

Martin Copley – who had worked for Tesco for 15 years – ordered nine electrical items including tablets and mobile phones to collect at his store and then requested a refund online.