Charities

A former priest defrauded the Church of England of more than £50,000 and held funerals with no religious authority, a court has heard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-48743515

A senior lecturer is accused of defrauding a charity out of more than £16,000.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/lecturer-faces-16k-charity-fraud-trial-206806/

Global leader of background and identity services, Sterling, has urged charities to ensure they have consistent and carefully applied background screening programmes in place in order to avoid the growing threat of insider fraud. This comes following a survey from the company that exposed a worrying level of inconsistency amongst background screening practices across the not-for-profit sector.

https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/97892/over-a-third-of-charities-exposing-themselves-to-potential-internal/#.XQlKW_j_zuE.twitter

A woman who duped and defrauded a cancer charity - by pretending she had cancer - has been ordered to repay £26,207.

AN Asian origin charity finance manager has been jailed in a £172,000 cheating case.

The former head of a charity for the disabled has pleaded not guilty after being accused of transferring £250,000 from the organisation's pension scheme.

Detectives from the Terrorism Investigation Unit have charged a 45-year old man with offences under the Charities Act.

A woman accused of raising tens of thousands of pounds to treat a cancer she “allegedly did not have” is set for trial, after denying six counts of fraud.

A woman has denied fraudulently accepting more than £45,000 in donations for an illness she allegedly did not have.

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