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  • 27 Mar 2024 10:55 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Police have confirmed that two people at the centre of the investigation into a Hull funeral directors were arrested at Heathrow Airport.

    Earlier this month, police received reports of concerns for "care for the deceased" at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors.

    https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2024-03-23/legacy-funeral-probe-pair-were-arrested-at-heathrow-airport


  • 27 Mar 2024 10:52 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Five people have been sentenced for their involvement in a “persistent and carefully prepared” fraud and money laundering scheme which cost banks more than half a million pounds.

    Ringleader and convicted fraudster Neale Rothera, 49, was jailed for six years and four months when he appeared at Leicester Crown Court for sentencing on Tuesday 19 March.

    https://westbridgfordwire.com/five-sentenced-in-500000-money-laundering-and-fraud-scheme/


  • 27 Mar 2024 10:50 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A Farmfoods employee has been jailed after conning his employers out of £275,000 by forging directors' signatures on cheques.

    John Brown scammed the supermarket chain while employed as a management accountant between 2015 and 2018.

    https://www.hrgrapevine.com/content/article/2024-03-22-farmoods-worker-forged-exec-signatures-to-pay-himself-275k-from-company-accounts


  • 24 Mar 2024 12:20 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The Serious Fraud Office has opened inquiries into the scandal-hit social housing firm Home REIT and is probing whether its former fund managers misled the market, City A.M. has learned.

    The watchdog, which investigates bribery, corruption and fraud, has held calls and spoken with several people that worked with the company in recent weeks but is yet to open a formal investigation, City A.M. understands.

    https://www.cityam.com/home-reit-serious-fraud-office-probing-whether-fund-managers-misled-the-market/


  • 24 Mar 2024 12:18 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A former Salford Red Devils employee has been found guilty of conning people out of thousands of pounds by selling fake concert and football tickets.

    Craig Hookham, of Medlock Way in Whitefield, Bury conned over 50 people, Manchester Crown Court heard.

    https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/former-salford-red-devils-employee-found-guilty-of-fraud-89273/


  • 17 Mar 2024 10:54 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The Government is in “dialogue” with the funeral industry as police investigate an alleged scandal at a business in Hull, the Prime Minister has said.

    Legacy Independent Funeral Directors is the subject of an investigation after officers recovered 35 bodies and suspected human ashes from the Hull-based firm.

    Officers cordoned off three of the company’s sites after the force received a report last week of concerns about the “storage and management processes relating to care of the deceased”.

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/government-dialogue-funeral-industry-over-125635195.html


  • 14 Mar 2024 11:57 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    LONDON (AP) — Nearly three dozen bodies were removed from a funeral home in northern England, and a man and woman were arrested Sunday on suspicion of fraud and preventing a lawful burial, police said.

    Humberside Police announced the developments after five days of investigation at three branches of Legacy Funeral Directors in Hull and East Yorkshire.

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/police-remove-34-bodies-english-184154487.html/


  • 08 Mar 2024 10:52 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Mike Lynch, the former boss of software firm Autonomy, has settled his lawsuit with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), days before the parties were due in court.

    Lynch filed a data lawsuit against the UK’s fraud agency at the end of January, ahead of his criminal trial in the US.

    According to his claim form seen by City A.M., he filed a data protection claim seeking access to personal data which may provide a complete defence for him in the US.

    https://www.cityam.com/former-autonomy-boss-mike-lynch-settles-data-claim-with-sfo-days-before-trial/


  • 03 Mar 2024 11:04 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A council worker has narrowly avoided prison after claiming more than £10,000 in sick pay while secretly working a second job.

    Samantha Harris was a youth support practitioner at Suffolk County Council when she dishonestly claimed the five-figure sick pay sum between December 2022 and May 2023, magistrates heard.

    https://www.hrgrapevine.com/content/article/2024-02-29-worker-narrowly-avoids-jail-after-pocketing-10k-sick-pay-while-working-second-job


  • 03 Mar 2024 10:54 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Seven alleged victims from Solihull, Bedworth, Stratford, Leamington, Kenilworth and Banbury contacted police.

    A suspected scam builder has been arrested amid alleged £270,000 worth of fraud. Warwickshire Police says that a 66-year-old man from the Stratford area, who has not been identified, is in custody.

    https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/suspected-scam-builder-arrested-amid-28719699

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