Private Sector

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.

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.

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”.

A family helped run a major fraud operation spanning more than a decade which deprived Royal Mail of around £70 million, a court has heard.

Parmjeet Sandhu, 56, and his nephew Balginder Sandhu, 46, were part of a scheme to under-declare mail posted through a network of logistics companies in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, pocketing millions of pounds, it is alleged.

https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/national/23724503.family-helped-defraud-royal-mail-70m-court-hears/

A former Halifax footballer has been imprisoned for 27 months for illegally acting as company director of an events promotion business while an undischarged bankrupt, and for committing fraud offences.

https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/2112432-former-footballer-jailed-for-illegally-acting-as-a-company-director

Three women, including one from Grantham, face a trial for their parts in an alleged long-running fraud.

The women have all appeared at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court, where their cases were sent on to Lincoln Crown Court for trial.

A DREAMS employee has been caught stealing more than £50,000 from the company after paying himself refunds from customers.

Sunny Bhayani, 62 of Woodham Lane, Addlestone, Surrey, worked in the customer services department at Dreams in High Wycombe, committing fraud in the region of £51,794.

A devastated north Cumbria haulage company director has described crying herself to sleep and becoming depressed after her business was targeted by two scheming sisters as part of an audacious £1.2 million fraud.

Joanne Charise 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.

An alleged fraudster who bought fruit and vegetables from a supermarket before selling them on as ‘organic boxes’ to unsuspecting customers online, is being hunted by police.

Mark Bullen, 52, is currently on Kent Police’s ‘most wanted’ list – in addition to forces in Sussex and Edinburgh – over the apparent scam.

A Lake District man has been jailed for a £295,000 fraud.

Allan Livesey, 61, of Lake Road, Windermere appeared at Carlisle Crown Court and was jailed for three years one month for two counts of fraud by false representation. He has also been disqualified from holding the position of director for ten years.