A tax worker faces years behind bars for an elaborate scam to con her colleagues out of more than £160,000 cash and fund her lifestyle.
Well, she was qualified for it..! Talk about gamekeeper turned poacher...
Kevan, of Central Avenue, Southend, was responsible for running a bank savings club – a legitimate scheme to encourage people to save for Christmas and withdraw their money with added interest to buy their seasonal presents.
Lesley Chipps, prosecuting, explained to Southend Magistrates’ Court: “She took control of the club.
"Then she e-mailed colleagues and offered a rate of interest above that offered by the bank.
“She inflated the interest to encourage people to save in the scheme.
“Several victims placed money in that account on the basis the interest rate was good.
“Mrs Kevan used the capital to pay interest to people and used it to support herself and her lifestyle.
“If there had been a run on the £200,000 investments and everyone wanted their money back, there wouldn’t have been sufficient funds to pay that.
“There would have been a shortfall of £160,000.”
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Wouldn't you think tax inspectors ought to know that?
Reading that article raises a couple of interesting points immediately ..
ReplyDeleteI find it strange that not one of her colleagues appears to have got even the faintest whiff of Rodent for quite some time ... and also strange that it's taken quite so long to bring the matter to court?
When someone tells me that they can offer better rates than the Bank can I'm always looking for the catch - perhaps I'm just a cynical old bugger though?
That reads like fairly standard banking procedure to me.
ReplyDeleteHMRC should have the cojones to submit a tax demand to her, for the £160,000 extra income she received. (And presumably didn’t declare.)
ReplyDeleteFrom my experience of working for the Revenue (in the 1980s), I'd say that a lot of us (myself included) were financially ignorant. Which is one reason why so many of the others were so naively and stupidly left-wing.
ReplyDeleteA "tax worker", or, as we say in plain English because there isn't any such thing as a "worker" in any public-sector organisation, "a worthless parasite", lied to its colleagues?
ReplyDeleteWell I never did.
Since on every occasion I have ever had the misfortune to speak to a Revenue official, the officer concerned has lied like a flat fish, I cannot say I am at all surprised.
This piece of lying rubbish has Revenue Scum as its victims? Suck it up, you filth. Suck it the fuck up.
"I find it strange that not one of her colleagues appears to have got even the faintest whiff of Rodent for quite some time ..."
ReplyDeleteThe best & the brightest, eh?
"And presumably didn’t declare"
*gets popcorn*
"Which is one reason why so many of the others were so naively and stupidly left-wing."
Must explain why they employ Richard Murphy too!
"Suck it up, you filth. Suck it the fuck up."
There IS a lot of schadenfreude here, isn't there? ;)