Private Sector

In a coordinated effort involving the Environment Agency, Joint Unit for Waste Crime, and Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime unit, raids conducted last week in Yorkshire have led to the arrest of four individuals suspected of involvement in waste offences, fraud and money laundering.

https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/four-arrested-in-yorkshire-waste-offences-raids/

The government plans to ban non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that prevent someone from making disclosures about criminal conduct for the purpose of reporting a crime or accessing support or advice.

https://www.lewissilkin.com/en/insights/ndas-preventing-disclosures-about-crime-to-be-banned

The owner of a Turkish restaurant who illegally applied for a £30,000 Covid Bounce Back Loan then tried to dissolve his company without informing creditors has been jailed.

Ilhan Kekec denied charges of fraud by false representation and failing to notify creditors of a voluntary strike-off but was found guilty by a jury in December 2023.

Simon Retallick has been sentenced to four years in prison at Teesside Crown Court today (Monday 25 March) after being charged with multiple counts of fraud and perverting the course of justice.

More than 17 offences were charged by Cleveland Police while Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council also brought 40 criminal charges against him following a Trading Standards investigation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.