Private Sector

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.

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/

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

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.

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/

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