Charities

The Charity Commission is warning trustees and donors to strengthen defences as it fears the pandemic has created environments that are enabling charity fraud.

A Markethill pensioner who admitted stealing almost £9,000 from the Orange Order has been warned she’s facing jail time.

Gael Ikobonga, 32 (02.07.88), of Rush Green Road, Romford was sentenced on Monday 5 October, at Snaresbrook Crown Court, to 28 months' imprisonment for fraud by abuse of position

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A former solicitor has admitted stealing about £350,000 from two charities after he fell foul of a scam. Hugh Lansdell, 71 and from Norwich, last week pleaded guilty at Norwich Magistrates’ Court to one count of fraud by abuse of position between August 2015 and July 2017.

https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/former-solicitor-admits-stealing-350k-two-charities-scammed/finance/article/1692701

In 2020 we are planning to combine the Charity Fraud Conference with two more of our successful events

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The Charity Commission, an independent regulator of charities in England and Wales, has appointed an interim manager to Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries International (1100416), a north London-based charity, which exists to promote Christianity.

HEARTLESS fraudsters are posing as fake charity collectors before taking money from kind-hearted victims.

https://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/18669924.police-fire-warning-rise-fake-charity-collector-frauds/?ref=twtrec

Multiple charities – including the Church of England – that claim they lost out after a senior partner stole millions from clients’ estates are suing her, her former partner, the firm and its insurer.

A man who fraudulently obtained money from a mother and her daughter was convicted of his crimes at Inner London Crown Court on Tuesday, 21 July.