Private Sector

A married couple who defrauded people out of thousands of pounds have been sentenced.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2019/03/05/whitchurch-husband-jailed-for-part-in-kitchen-fraud/

Eight women who scammed the Whitchurch supermarket they worked using coupons have been told to repay more than £16,000 between them.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2019/03/04/shop-workers-in-whitchurch-co-op-fraud-must-repay-16000/

A couple have furiously claimed that a builder they paid £22,000 for an extension has disappeared without trace after building just three walls and leaving them sleeping in their attic for months.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/newsuk/husband-and-heavily-pregnant-wife-are-forced-to-live-in-the-attic-after-paying-%C2%A322000-for-kitchen-extension-only-for-rogue-trader-to-fold-business-leaving-home-exposed-to-the-elements/ar-BBTNp5e?ocid=st

A man has been banned from running a company for eight years after two firms made 221 million nuisance calls.

A man and a woman have been arrested following reports of fraud at a funeral home in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Britain’s corruption watchdog closed the curtains on major probes into Rolls-Royce and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) this morning.

Why do some companies succeed and others fail? Why do some engage in deception and even massive fraud and others stay honest? Do we need regulations to deal with these questions or are shareholders’ market discipline and pressure enough? These are just some of the questions Alexander F. Wagner, Ph.D., is interested in as he tries to discern, via his research, how employees in organizations make their decisions.

https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4295004226

Warren Buffett once said that “bad things aren’t obvious when times are good”. It is a statement that rings painfully true in the case of Luke Johnson, who was riding high last year with a £250m fortune, when the bad things – an alleged long-term fraud of Patisserie Valerie accounts – were apparently far from obvious.

http://www.cityam.com/273274/luke-johnson-see-his-reputation-recover

A number of financial scandals has prompted calls for tougher official controls to prevent fraud. Aziz Rahman, of business crime solicitors Rahman Ravelli, outlines why companies need to take steps themselves to reduce the potential for wrongdoing

http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/2033680-the-need-to-tackle-workplace-fraud#.XGc-lW8Vdig.twitter

LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Britain’s BT declined to comment on allegations made by Italian prosecutors that three former senior executives of the telecoms company were aware of fraud at its Italian unit.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/bt-italy-bt-response/bt-declines-to-comment-on-italian-fraud-probe-idUKL5N20861Z