Public Sector

THE first person from the Vale of White Horse to have been prosecuted for fraudulently claiming single person discount on their council tax has been named.

Shamed Michelle Hollingsworth made a desperate bid to cover her tracks after Sandwell Council’s fraud squad launched a criminal investigation into the finances of Smethwick’s Annie Lennard School.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2019/09/06/how-headteacher-bid-to-cover-up-school-fraud-as-net-closed-in/

A 'greedy' consultant is in court accused of fraud for working at five private hospitals while still collecting her six-figure NHS salary.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7427145/NHS-paediatric-consultant-Dr-Maria-Klusmann-court-fraud.html

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) maintained a strong investigative performance in 2018, focusing its efforts on the areas where it could bring the highest added value to European citizens – complex, transnational cases that would be impossible to tackle by national authorities alone.

https://eutoday.net/news/business-economy/2019/anti-fraud-office-says-it-is-making-a-difference

AN ACCOUNTANT who scammed the Ministry of Defence out of more than £100,000 to pay off mounting debts has been jailed.

The one thing all investigations into allegations of corruption in Tower Hamlets have in common is that none of them ever charge anyone, let alone put guilty people behind bars.

A FRAUD investigator has claimed that he was sacked from his job by a scandal-hit council because he is white and the subjects of his investigation were Asians.

Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O’Mara has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, according to reports.

Experts in preventing fraud will meet in Oxford next month when a special conference is held at the Town Hall for the fourth time.

A building merchants manager “naively” accepted cheques for excessive amounts from a headteacher for goods supplied, returning the overpayments in cash, a court heard.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2019/08/20/school-fraud-trial-told-of-cash-for-cheques-scam-claims/