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  • 14 Jan 2024 10:10 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Metropolitan Police detectives are looking at “potential fraud offences” committed during the Horizon IT scandal.

    More than 700 Post Office branch managers were handed criminal convictions after faulty Fujitsu accounting software made it appear as though money was missing from their outlets.

    It has been described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history and a public inquiry into it is ongoing.

    https://www.cityam.com/police-investigate-potential-fraud-offences-during-horizon-it-scandal/


  • 14 Jan 2024 10:08 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    An Essex post office manager who was falsely accused of a £17,000 fraud claims that The Post Office was "forcing him out". The Post Office Horizon scandal is getting huge exposure this week with the airing of the ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, part of which was filmed in Essex and shares how hundreds of subpostmasters and mistresses (SPMs) were wrongly prosecuted for fraud and theft.

    https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/post-office-scandal-essex-subpostmaster-6675169

  • 14 Jan 2024 10:04 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A Nigerian businessman who appeared to be closing in on an acquisition of Premier League football club Sheffield United is being sued by the US financial watchdog.

    Dozy Mmobuosi is facing claims he inflated his companies’ financial performance by hundreds of millions of dollars to con investors.

    https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/2118334-businessman-who-tried-to-buy-sheffield-united-accused-of-fraud


  • 06 Jan 2024 3:24 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A craft beer pub in Brighton is on the market for £725,000 after the previous owner closed the premises following a fraud.

    Almost exactly a year ago on Tuesday 3 January, the Craft Beer Co posted on its Facebook page: “Sadly we are temporarily closing our Brighton venue due to a large-scale fraud/theft committed by a trusted senior team member.

    https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2023/12/31/fraud-hit-craft-beer-pub-in-brighton-for-sale-for-725k/


  • 23 Dec 2023 1:29 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The financier behind a collapsed chain of London seafood restaurants has been sentenced to six years in prison in an Italian fraud trial that has rocked the Vatican.

    Gianluigi Torzi, the man responsible for the Seasons chain of fish restaurants, was sentenced alongside Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court. Becciu was jailed for five and a half years.

    https://www.cityam.com/financier-of-london-restaurants-jailed-after-italian-fraud-trial/


  • 18 Dec 2023 6:10 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A builder who defrauded his client on their £700,000 home refurbishment has been jailed for four years following a prosecution brought by Kensington and Chelsea Council.

    https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2023/12/18/cheating-builder-gets-four-years-in-jail/

  • 18 Dec 2023 6:07 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Today at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) successfully prosecuted the convicted £17 million solar panel fraudster David Black for the second time, after investigators discovered he was using a different name in business dealings in breach of conditions enacted after his release from prison.

    https://www.sfo.gov.uk/2023/12/14/sfo-secures-second-conviction-of-solar-panel-fraudster/

  • 18 Dec 2023 6:03 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A Police Federation consultant who lied about payments to members of the House of Lords as he helped himself to part of £250,000 set aside for improving policing is facing jail for fraud.

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/police-federation-consultant-faces-jail-150811629.html?guccounter=1

  • 18 Dec 2023 5:54 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A dental manager has been jailed for stealing a quarter of a million pounds from her practice - blaming it her colleagues with 'drugs, debts and family issues'.

    Lisa Marie Jones, 55, spent the money on luxury handbags and shoes after paying herself up to £8,000 a month, more than six times her actual wage of £1,200.

    https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-12-12/dental-manager-stole-almost-300000-from-practice


  • 02 Dec 2023 11:01 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Companies operating in the UK – whether incorporated in the UK or simply carrying on a business in the UK are entering into a period of significant change in the way corporate crime is going to be investigated and prosecuted.

    https://www.engage.hoganlovells.com/knowledgeservices/news/is-the-uk-entering-into-a-new-age-of-corporate-crime-enforcement

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