Insurance claims handler jailed for £39, 000 fraud

An insurance claims handler who stole £39, 000 from his employer out to settle pay-day loans and drug debts was jailed for 17 months at cardiff crown court on 2 august 2013. 

According onto the insurance fraud enforcement department ( ifed ) christian williams snuck into his newport office in the midst as to the night various times between august 2012 and january 2013, as well as double when he was on sick leave, and used his managers compromised pc logon details to help make payments out to himself. 

The ifed detailed that the 22-year-old re-opened four genuine household insurance claims that had been closed and during which no settlement payment had been created onto the claimant. 

He then created 3 fraudulent payments into his ex-partners banking accounts while a more payment into his own banking accounts. 

the specialist police unit added that williams came undone in february 2013 when his employer noticed that 2 payments had been created out to a similar banking accounts and referred the case out to it. 

Arrested 

A similar month ifed detectives travelled out to newport and arrested williams at his office. 

Within the whole police interview williams stated he used a majority as to the money out to settle pay-day loans and medicine debts before spending the remainder connected to car, holidays and alternative luxuries. 

he admitted out to stealing his supervisors pc logon as a result of he was solely able to authorise payments of up out to £1, 000 whereas managers may sign-off up out to £10, 000.

He conjointly confessed that he had transferred money into his ex-partners banking accounts while not permission. 

Williams, of stanwell road in penarth, was subsequently charged with and pleaded guilty out to 5 counts of fraud by abuse of position. loans and drug debts dc andy jackson, who led ifeds investigation, aforementioned : williams took the choice that his employer was traveling to really do the one out to foot the bill to his pay-day loans and drug debts.

There is to do this he concocted a theme that concerned sneaking into his office when dark, stealing his managers logon details and siphoning tens of a very large number pounds into his and his ex-partners accounts. 

unfortunately for him, the shut checks conducted by his employer swiftly led out to decisive action by ifed that these days leaves him facing 17 months behind bars.