Insurance Claims Handler Jailed Once Stealing £39, 000

An insurance claims handler who stole £39, 000 from his employer out to settle pay-day loans and drug debts has these days been jailed for 17 months at cardiff crown court. 

The court heard that christian williams sneaked into his newport office in the midst as to the night various times between august 2012 and january 2013, together with doubly when he was on sick leave, and used his manager’s compromised laptop login details in order to make payments out to himself. 

The 22-year-old re-opened four genuine household insurance claims that had been closed and within which no settlement payment had been created out to the claimant. he then created 3 fraudulent payments into his former partner’s banking accounts as well as a additional payment into his own banking accounts. 

However williams came undone in february 2013 when his employer noticed that 2 payments had been created out to the very same banking accounts and referred the case out to the town of london police’s insurance fraud enforcement department ( ifed ). 

Utilizing a police interview, williams ( pictured ) stated he used a majority as to the money out to settle pay-day loans and medication debts before spending the remainder on any car, holidays and different luxuries. 

He admitted out to stealing his supervisor’s laptop login as a result of he was no more than ready to authorise payments of up out to £1, 000, whereas managers might sign off up out to £10, 000. 

He too confessed that he had transferred money into his former partner’s 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. 

Dc andy jackson, who led ifed’s investigation, aforesaid : “williams took the choice that his employer was traveling to function as one out to foot the bill as a result of his pay-day loans and drug debts. 

“To do this he concocted a theme that concerned sneaking into his office once dark, stealing his manager’s login details and siphoning tens of a very large number pounds into his and his ex-partner’s 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. 
“Ifed is dedicated out to operating along with the insurance trade out to root out fraudsters and place them in front as to the courts. ”