Private Sector

An accountant who fraudulently transferred more than £200,000 to herself from her employer has been jailed.

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2022-01-26/cambridge-accountant-stole-more-than-200000-from-employer

MISCARRIAGE of justice compensation payments made by the Scottish Government to 19 people over 10 years amount to just a third of the 'eye-watering' £33m payouts to those maliciously prosecuted in the failed Rangers fraud probe in just one year, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/19868185.lord-advocate-questioned-eye-watering-33m-paid-failed-rangers-fraud-case-year/?ref=twtrec

An appeal court judge has ruled that former bosses of a leading legal expenses insurer should pay back a total of almost £6m following their convictions for fraud.

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/fraud-trio-who-conspired-against-employer-ordered-to-repay-almost-6m/5111156.article#.Yeams-Wk3o8.twitter

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been warned of increased risk of scams targeting their companies.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-finance-small-uk-businesses-warned-of-increased-risk-of-targeted-scams-000110182.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE6wmziAHHJ3DDup5-kNQDgZHL9mIq-y_hgzsHuJ3YIKgYN3cP9zNxgDSNJFKlItRWVWqMWSimaRR9--JnUqL1GJTieSk1mmy2hDVYWdQiz-JIz-XNrXrhexwRJP50BmRBhMfbviyRhyArUvDtSeAOEUUBDF6kSpFNlY0WKTOyKC

THE BBC are facing a multi-million-pound defamation action over a documentary that sparked a failed Rangers fraud investigation and led to malicious prosecutions.

An ex-estate agent, who was last week sent to prison for assaulting his partner, has been charged with two counts of fraud.

https://propertyindustryeye.com/jailed-former-estate-agent-charged-with-fraud/

A 31-year-old Gloucester woman who has admitted defrauding three businesses of almost £110,000 while working as their bookkeeper is claiming she did it because she was under pressure from a 'dangerous and violent man.'

https://www.punchline-gloucester.com/articles/aanews/gloucester-bookkeeper-admits-defrauding-three-businesses

Balfour Beatty’s US operation has been ordered to pay out £49m after pleading guilty to major fraud on its military housing maintenance contract.

https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2021/12/23/balfour-beatty-us-arm-to-pay-49m-over-military-housing-fraud/

Nottinghamshire Police said a payroll clerk has been jailed for stealing more than £55,000 from his bosses.

https://www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/jail-payroll-clerk-who-kept-22515552

Unsecured systems and processes can be remarkably easy to exploit.

https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/21348/workforce-behaviour-modelling-get-proactive-about-insider-fraud