Charities

A DISGRACED former councillor has been convicted of taking more than £8,000 from a local charity she worked for.

While accounts were not filed in time, investigation finds no evidence of fraud or misappropriation 

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/charity-commission-closes-probe-into-chabad-lubavitch-uk/

A father and son laundered more than £10 million from the illegal sale of Viagra and slimming pills through charities they set up to tackle Jewish poverty, a court heard.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/father-and-son-used-charities-to-hide-10m-from-illegal-prescription-drugs-a4120351.html

A CROOKED accountant who stole tens of thousands of pounds from two North-East charities has been jailed.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/17571013.thieving-accountant-paul-brown-king-lined-his-own-pockets/?ref=twtrec

A branch of the RSPCA is being investigated by the police over suspected fraud involving hundreds of thousands of pounds.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/14/rspca-branch-investigated-police-fraud-two-men-arrested/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw

A mother who gambled away £100,000 donated for treatment for her seriously ill son has walked free from court after a judge accepted she had been under "extraordinary pressure".

https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2019-03-29/mother-of-six-year-old-toby-nye-sentenced-after-admitting-fundraising-fraud/

Two solicitors fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal last summer have now been permanently disqualified as trustees by the Charity Commission in an unrelated matter.

A woman who pretended she had cancer in an “astonishingly unethical” fraud has been jailed for more than four years.

The mother of six year old Toby Nye, who died in January after battling a brain tumour, has admitted committing fraud on the trust fund set up to pay for her sons specialist cancer treatment.

https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2019-03-04/toby-nyes-mother-appears-in-court-over-fraud-charges/

The former head of a charity for the disabled is to be prosecuted on suspicion of having defrauded the charity’s pension scheme