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According to the Leicestershire Live website, a wife has claimed she had no idea that her husband stole nearly £1.5 million from two employers.

Sofina Sarwar’s husband, Haroon Cassim, used bogus invoices from fake businesses to transfer hundreds of thousands of pounds into two of her accounts.

The Northern Echo website reports that an employee of a motorcycle supplier who was asked to deliver three motocross bikes – worth £3,000 each – failed to do so, selling them instead, to pay off a drug debt.

Kyle Goulding was employed and trusted by Callum Wood, despite having a previous criminal history for theft.

According to the Northamptonshire Telegraph website, the former CEO of a trust which ran nine county schools made ‘more than one substantial false claim’ on his CV.

Johnson Kane’s resumé showed that he had been invited to join the board of BAA, had run a venture capital bank and was high up in John Lewis.

The Personnel Today website reports that a senior NHS boss gained his job by falsely stating he had a degree.

Peter Knight – who was paid up to £135,000 in 2017-18 – was reported via an anonymous tip-off to the NHS trust’s CFO and it was subsequently found that he did not have the classics degree he had declared on his CV.

According to the Retail Gazette website, recent research has shown that the retail sector is plagued with 1,000 shoplifting incidents per day, and more than half of them reportedly go unpunished.

Police data shows that UK retailers recorded 359,156 incidents of shoplifting in 2019, and 17 of 45 police forces around the UK saw increases in the number of incidents, with Sussex being the worst hit.

According to the nwemail.co.uk website, a man stole 20 barrels of raw diesel from his employer, after being given an ultimatum for a previous theft.

Ian Benn was working for Certa Energy and was caught stealing the first ten barrels of fuel after being filmed by members of the public.