Family Swindled National Trust out of £1 Million in 'Audacious' Fraud
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Yet another case of someone swindling money from an establishment , this time another charity, The National Trust , but he was not so 'trust'worthy
Roger Bryant, who worked for the trust approved false invoices totalling over £1 million for fictitious or unfinished work for the trust and siphoned the money off so it went into his sons bank account
This went on for 5 years or so and he was prosecuted and got 6 and a half years, the sons got 4 years and 2 years respectively
The one thing i didn't see was any order to pay back the money or a seizure of their property , which is surprising as a chunk of the stolen money has used for repairs to Bryants property !!
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/national-trust-swindled-out-1m-33720544
They should sale his properties. HMRC do this in fraud cases hopefully something similar will happen here too.
They should always pursue recovering money even if it means they lose their pension, any benefits, property etc. It's a fair punishment and of course is a massive deterrent for other people committing the same crime.
BonzoBanana Hitting them in the pocket is the best way B, unfortunately the courts rarely recover the bulk of what is stolen
BonzoBanana The sentences given is no deterrent whatsoever. Too many charity staff have been doing the "invoices" scam for years and it is only by luck a few have been caught. Years ago, the charity staff at various charity shops that I volunteer at never put the correct amount of money into the till and help themselves to the "best" donations.
Wow. That is unreal. I can’t believe people think they can get away with taking that amount of money
They might have put the properties in spouses names. There was a case locally that a man working in a bank defrauded them, he went to jail but the house was in his wife’s name.
I'm sure labour will release them early, probably next week , under the prison reform scheme lol
Those are hefty sentences they both got, which is right. Seems a bit unfair though if they don’t plan on recovering the stolen funds.
I'm not surprised. People are awful and will happily shaft those in need or trying to persevere stuff for the future.
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