Private Sector

  • 07 Feb 2024 3:44 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A crooked businessman accused of paying £259,000 to a poultry factory worker in Anglesey for unauthorised deliveries of chicken has been jailed for four years and three months.

    https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/black-country/2024/02/05/chickens-come-home-to-roost-for-businessman-jailed-over-meat-fraud/

  • 07 Feb 2024 3:43 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A Leicester businessman, Nazir Abdul Rashid Daud, previously residing on Landseer Road, Leicester, has been sentenced to four years in prison and disqualified from company directorship for 15 years.

    Daud, convicted in his absence at Leicester Crown Court on December 2, 2022, faced charges under the Fraud Act 2006 and the Companies Act 2006 for false representations and fraudulent trading between 2015 and 2018.

    https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands/news/2081627-runaway-fraudster-gets-four-years-in-prison


  • 07 Feb 2024 3:33 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A woman who stole more than £30,000 from her employer has been spared jail because of her responsibilities as a mother.

    Tracie Anne Brookes, 56, of Mill Street, Prees, was sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to one charge of fraud.

    https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2024/02/02/woman-who-stole-30k-from-employer-spared-jail/

  • 03 Feb 2024 3:44 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Mike Lynch, the former boss of software firm Autonomy, has filed a lawsuit against the UK’s fraud agency ahead of his criminal trial in the US.

    Lynch filed the claim against the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) at the High Court in London today and has appointed law firm Pallas Partners to represent him, according to an update in the High Court public claims system.

    https://www.cityam.com/former-autonomy-boss-sues-sfo-ahead-of-us-fraud-trial/


  • 03 Feb 2024 3:23 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A businessman, through his company, swindled residents out of £1.5m by falsely promising energy savings and home security through their products and services.

    The court heard how between 2014 and 2015, Robin MacDonald conducted a widespread campaign of fraud and mis-selling through his businesses, Sunpower Renewables Ltd and Stirling Technologies Ltd, trading as Proshield Alarms.

    https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands/news/2081400-fraudsters-company-scams-residents-of-1.5m


  • 27 Jan 2024 3:18 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Five people have appeared in court after being charged for their part in an alleged wine fraud, following an extensive Hertfordshire County Council’s Trading Standards investigation.

    https://www.thecomet.net/news/24071181.five-appear-court-part-alleged-wine-fraud/

  • 27 Jan 2024 3:15 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    More than 5,000 companies were formed over the last year by Chinese nationals using addresses in Northern Ireland where the home, business owners or residents are believed to have no connection to the companies.

    Companies using addresses across the north, some fictitious, are trading on sites like Amazon but are using historically lax registration rules likely as part of some type of VAT fraud and to evade potential tax liabilities, according to a leading fraud expert.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/fraud-warning-after-5000-firms-started-in-last-year-by-chinese-nationals-using-northern-ireland-addresses/ar-BB1hcepB

  • 20 Jan 2024 10:41 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A former Telford lorry driver has been spared jail after defrauding the haulage firm he had worked for out of £12,500 by filling up his personal car on his company fuel card.

    https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2024/01/13/former-telford-lorry-driver-spared-jail-for-fuel-card-fraud/

  • 14 Jan 2024 10:23 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Over the past year, we have seen numerous stories of employees sabotaging their employer.

    Whether it's a finance professional embezzling money, or a retail worker stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of products, the cost-of-living crisis has caused a surge in these types of incidences - posing a new type of internal threat for employers.

    https://www.hrgrapevine.com/content/article/2024-01-11-fraud-likely-to-rise-in-2024-how-can-you-prevent-it


  • 14 Jan 2024 10:12 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Conservative backbencher David Davis and Labour MP Kevan Jones are pushing for an emergency debate.

    MPs plan to raise the Horizon scandal in the Commons as Parliament returns this week amid growing anger over the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters and postmistresses for alleged fraud.

    https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2024/01/08/mps-plan-to-raise-horizon-scandal-in-commons-as-calls-grow-for-victim-redress/

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