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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

telmel
a week ago
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Gromit22

They should sale his properties. HMRC do this in fraud cases hopefully something similar will happen here too.

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telmel

Gromit22 lets hope so G

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BonzoBanana

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.

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telmel

BonzoBanana Hitting them in the pocket is the best way B, unfortunately the courts rarely recover the bulk of what is stolen

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jam45

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.

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PayItForward

Wow. That is unreal. I can’t believe people think they can get away with taking that amount of money

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telmel

PayItForward But they do P, they serve their time then when out spend their spoils

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Pjran

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.

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telmel

Pjran Yes that's a way around it P unfortunately

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martinlufc5637

I'm sure labour will release them early, probably next week , under the prison reform scheme lol

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jms19

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.

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Jerseydrew

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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