fraud

Following Clement’s June resignation over dodgy expenses (to recap: lunches with people who say they weren’t there, a sound system and flight upgrades), he’s now been charged with five counts of fraud over those lunches. Oops. Clement is “surprised and saddened” that the CPS chose …

98. The London Mermaid The case of the London mermaid is classic folklore. Here was an alleged creature, brought to the capital by a Captain Eades, who purchased the specimen in 1822 from fisherman in Holland, who claimed they’d obtained it from Japanese anglers. Eades …

Remember when Alistair Darling was mocked for suggesting just a few months ago that economic times were the “worst in 50 years“? Nobody’s laughing now, particularly as the bad news piles up quicker than unopened Amex bills in the mailbox of a credit-crunched City worker. …

Following the furore over widespread lackadaisical record-keeping for on duty expenses within the Met police force, a detective has been jailed for 10 months for impressively audacious abuses of the company credit card. Detective Sergeant Richard de Cadenet’s level of spending suggests he wasn’t entirely …

You were warned the Olympian scammers were starting early. Seems it’s not only ticket tykes and touts that are getting ahead of the Games, though. One East London fraudster appears to have lured 550 Slovakian workers to London on the promise of jobs on the …

Buy and sell any tickets. Any tickets to spare? Buy and sell any tickets. If you hear these phrases being muttered on the tube and at bus stops over the next few months, don’t be alarmed – it’s just the nation’s ticket touts and scammers warming …

Case records just released show how a woman accused of fraud tried a novel but gruesome way to persuade a North-East London jury that she was not to blame. Rather than use one of the more effective controversial defense strategies seen in recent cases such …

Those people persevering with wordy email scams from Nigeria, involving “confidential business transactions” worth vast amounts of money, civil unrest and promises of mighty rewards for the simple act of paying their expenses really ought to take a leaf out of the audacious book of …

Tooting has just been bestowed with a rather dubious title — the UK’s worst place for ID fraud. It’s not just a little more likely that your identity, credit and good name will be stolen from SW17, it’s a whole five times more likely than …

Macabre London: First, man denies murdering model but admits to necrophilia; then a headless corpse turns up in northwest London. We find ourselves suspiciously eyeing other commuters on our Tube ride home this evening. Corrupt London: We know that London is ranked first on all …