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The Derbyshire Times reports that a conwoman who had previously swindled pet owners out of thousands of pounds, has been jailed for stealing cash from Greggs.

Emma Bent was jailed for fraud in 2011, but Greggs did not ask her if she had any previous convictions when she filled out her job application.

An article on the Personnel Today website addresses the need for business boardrooms to act to protect themselves from the “internal threat”.

The average loss for a UK company with fewer than 100 employees from a single incident of fraud is £150,000 and companies with more than 100 employees are hit by average losses of £78,000 from a single fraud event, according to a report as part of the Nations Global Fraud Study 2018.

As reported in The Mirror, a sweet shop owner in Bournemouth has put up posters of suspected shoplifters in his window.

John Keppie blew up images taken from CCTV cameras and stuck the them in the window with the word ‘THIEF’ printed above each image in large capital letters.

As reported on the Derbyshire Live website, a former finance manager who stole £17,000 from her employer has 12 weeks to cough up more than £5,000 – or face another prison term.

Teresa Clay handed almost £6,000 of her ill-gotten gains to her son before she was arrested and jailed for taking cash from Farsight Recruitment. in Derby.

According to the Swindon Advertiser, a man defrauded almost £250,000 from his employer, with the help of 34 accomplices.

Aaron Kennett was jailed for fraud and money laundering after issuing false refunds to several of his friends, stealing £213,000 from his employer, Oak Furnitureland.

According the Mail Online, a finance director has been jailed after admitting to stealing £600,000 from her employer to earn the love of a ‘romance fraudster’ with gambling debts.

Ilyiea Ali siphoned money from Information Security Forum Ltd (ISF), which was was not accounted for because Ali was ‘the person responsible for identifying financial anomalies.’