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  • 31 Aug 2023 10:08 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    An 83-year-old woman who operated as an illegal loan shark charged her victims 40% interest and sent them threatening text messages.

    A jury at Cardiff Crown Court heard how Tabitha Richardson, from Newport, lent a total of £126,000 without a licence.

    The court also heard how the pensioner made threats to "come look for them" when payments were missed.

    https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-08-25/menacing-loan-shark-83-warned-couple-you-know-i-can-find-you


  • 31 Aug 2023 10:02 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A TSB fraud worker used his position to defraud the bank of almost £90,000 to fund a gambling and cocaine habit.

    Benjamin Hannington, an assistant manager in TSB's fraud operations department, transferred large sums to himself under the guise of them being customer refunds.

    https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2023-08-25/tsb-fraud-worker-defrauded-87k-from-bank-to-fund-gambling-and-drug-habits


  • 31 Aug 2023 10:01 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The former boss of the Co-operative Bank has been charged with fraud.

    Paul Flowers, 73, will appear before Manchester Magistrates Court charged with one count of fraud by abuse of position between June 2016 and October 2017.

    https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-08-25/former-co-op-bank-boss-charged-with-fraud


  • 31 Aug 2023 9:52 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    An Edinburgh office manager has been jailed for committing £900,000 worth of company fraud.

    Emma Hunt obtained more than £900,000 through embezzlement and fraud while she was working as the office manager of an Edinburgh property firm.

    https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23744601.edinburgh-property-company-manager-jailed-fraud-embezzlement/

  • 31 Aug 2023 9:43 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Two sisters have been jailed for making threats to “finish” a family-run Cumbrian haulage business and hurt a director’s family during a £1.3 million fraud.

    Joanne Palmer, 40, and her 38-year-old sibling Stephanie Palmer targeted two English firms based 150 miles apart by bombarding unsuspecting staff members with phone calls.

    https://www.itv.com/news/border/2023-08-23/two-sisters-jailed-following-13million-fraud-of-cumbrian-business

  • 31 Aug 2023 9:41 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A former bank employee and his acccomplice have been sentenced to a combined total of five years and seven months in prison after stealing £130,000 from customer accounts.

    Nathan Gilbert, 26, of Enfield, North London, who worked at the unidentified bank in Muswell Hill, was found to have changed bank customers’ account details and fraudulently issued bank passbooks, liaising with Daniel Frank, 46, of East Finchley, North London, to defraud several customers.

    https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/42831/former-bank-employee-jailed-over-130000-fraud


  • 31 Aug 2023 9:39 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Millions of pounds were pocketed in the fraud, which involved the under-declaration of mail that was posted through a network of logistics companies in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.

    https://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/national/23740049.three-firms-guilty-fraud-cost-royal-mail-least-70m-decade/

  • 31 Aug 2023 9:34 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Investigators have put out a new appeal to find a farmer who defrauded creditors out of £765,000 - and has since been spotted on dating sites.

    Wayne Parker, from Mildenhall in Suffolk, has been on the run since his conviction last October.

    https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2023-08-22/fraudster-farmer-with-765000-debt-seen-on-dating-site


  • 24 Aug 2023 11:17 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A Co Armagh woman has been accused of abusing positions of trust with three different employers to defraud more than £200,000.

    Although Lisa Marie McGuckin did not appear at Craigavon Magistrates Court on Friday the 45-year-old was charged with three offences of committing fraud by abuse of position over a time span between 15 September 2011 and 11 July 2019.

    https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2023/08/18/news/woman_accused_of_200k_fraud_charges_linked_to_three_different_employers-3543004/?param=ds441rif44T


  • 16 Aug 2023 5:24 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Gary Steven Nelson, 46, faces four charges – two of fraud, two under unfair trading regulations. All concern a home in Ingleby Barwick between October 2021 and May 2022.

    He is accused of fraud by failing to complete work at the address “having been paid £31,190”, and by making “variations to the extension build… which were not in accordance with the original plans agreed with the homeowner”.

    https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/trader-appear-court-charged-31-160611079.html


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