The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged two individuals with fraud and false accounting in relation to its investigation into Serco’s electronic monitoring contract with the Ministry of Justice. Nicholas Woods (former finance director of Serco Home Affairs) and Simon Marshall (former operations director of…
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Fraud Act 2006
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Lee Brown, 29, of Belfast has pleaded guilty at Laganside Magistrates Court to five offences of fraud, forgery and counterfeiting licences belonging to other people following a prosecution brought by the Security Industry Authority (SIA). Brown was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment (on each count),…
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Jailed company director stole identities to supply “fake” security personnel at festivals
by Brian SimsLee Szuchnik, the director of a South Wales company that supplied events with bogus security staff using false identities, has been jailed for two years and three months at Cardiff Crown Court. His fellow director at LS Armour, namely Erica Lloyd, was handed a suspended sentence.…
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On Thursday 6 September at Woolwich Crown Court, Kazeem Oladimeji of Bromley pleaded guilty to an offence under the Fraud Act 2006 of fraud by false representation while working in the security industry. Oladimeji was jailed for five months and fined £115 for gaining employment…
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Former NHS England Equality Lead Paula Vasco-Knight CBE and husband plead guilty to fraud
by Brian SimsPaula Vasco-Knight (NHS England’s former National Lead for Equality, who was also CEO of Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust) and her husband Stephen Vasco-Knight have both pleaded guilty at Exeter Crown Court to fraud against the NHS. Following a thorough investigation process conducted by NHS…
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Midlands mental health manager and ‘Clinical Leader of the Year’ GP sentenced for £153,000 fraud
by Brian SimsTwo respected mental health professionals have been revealed as fraudsters after being investigated by NHS Protect, which leads the national fight against fraud, bribery and corruption within the National Health Service. Lisa Hill (55) of Stourbridge Road, Hagley and Dr Ian Walton (59) of Stourbridge…
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NHS dialysis manager and contractors jailed for £300,000 fraud against Epsom and St Helier Trust
by Brian SimsAn NHS manager, his partner and three contractors, all of whom helped to defraud his employer of hundreds of thousands of pounds, have been sentenced at Croydon Crown Court following a thorough fraud investigation led by NHS Protect. The thefts from Epsom and St Helier University…
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Following a locally-led fraud investigation supported by NHS Protect, a temporary senior commissioner who defrauded the NHS Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) of nearly £145,000 has been jailed for two years and three months following a hearing at Croydon Crown Court on Thursday 13 October. Noel Morrow of Rivermead,…
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City hedge fund manager convicted of multi-million pound fraud following SFO investigation
by Brian SimsA former city hedge fund manager has been convicted following the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) investigation into the collapse of Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund Ltd. Ulf Magnus Michael Peterson, 51, a Swedish national of Otham, Kent was the founding director of Weavering Capital (UK) Ltd…