“A former criminal defence solicitor has been jailed for two years for her part in a £1.3m mortgage fraud in east London.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 20th September 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Individuals that make false insurance claims will have their details added and stored on a new ‘Insurance Fraud Register’ (IFR) for five years in a bid by the insurance industry to crackdown on fraudsters.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th September 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A notorious ‘soft touch’ judge spares a benefits cheat from prison after claiming the £38,000 cost of locking him up would be the same as the amount he had swindled.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A fantasist who blogged about his experiences as a police officer during last summer’s London riots was today jailed for five years.”
The Independent, 7th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who tried to submit hundreds of fraudulent visa applications has today been sentenced to 4 years and 9 months in prison, following an investigation by the UK Border Agency.”
UK Border Agency, 4th September 2012
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A benefits cheat who pretended to need a wheelchair used £1.8 million of grants to fund a lifestyle of scuba diving, penthouses and top of the range cars.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Serious Fraud Office has launched an investigation into payments made after Barclays tapped Middle Eastern investors for emergency funds in 2008.”
The Guardian, 30th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Bedfordshire restaurant owner has been found guilty of being involved in a sham marriage scam.”
BBC News, 29th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The widow of a Royal Navy diver has been jailed after admitting fraudulently pocketing more than £144,000 from the Armed Forces’ pension scheme.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Former fugitive Asil Nadir has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of stealing more than £28 million from his Polly Peck business empire.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A shop worker who tried to claim a winning £1m lottery ticket belonging to an elderly couple has been jailed for two and a half years.”
The Independent, 21st August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The link-sharing website’s demise at the hands of the content industry’s pitbull has set more than one precedent.”
The Guardian, 19th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A payday lender has been fined and had its licence taken away by the Office of Fair Trading for the first time – but is still lending money at interest rates of more than 5,000%.”
The Guardian, 9th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Pay freezes, rising unemployment and inflation are to blame for rising levels of insider fraud, according to CIFAS, the UK fraud prevention service.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A police officer who took time off work after falsely claiming her daughter had cancer has been jailed for 18 months.”
BBC News, 30th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two ‘notorious’ brothers from Wolverhampton have been jailed for their part in a £34m tax fraud.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
” A convicted rapist who won nearly £5 million on the lottery but continued to fraudulently claim benefits has been jailed for nine months.”
The Independent, 24th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A Northamptonshire man has been sentenced to two years in prison for a scam that led 75 local children to believe they would be dancing at the closing ceremony at the Olympic Games – described by CPS East Midlands Senior Crown Prosecutor Ben Samples as ‘callous and deceitful’.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 17th July 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Rogue Traders presenter Dan Penteado has been jailed for council tax and housing benefit fraud totaling £24,000.”
The Independent, 17th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The court would not exercise its discretion under section 4(1)(b) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 to make a disqualification order against a liquidator who had been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company or of any breach of his duty as such liquidator unless serious misconduct had been established. Where a liquidator applied pursuant to section 16(2) of the Act for a disqualification order under section 4 it was not a prerequisite that the liquidator should have a financial interest in the order being made.”
WLR Daily, 10th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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