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UK:Zim Accountant Steals £1,8million
26 April 2016
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evelyn goreA 41-year-old Zimbabwean accountant defrauded two companies of more than £1.8m.
Evelyn Gore-Strachan, was working at Reading firms Webtech Wireless and Britannia Pharmaceuticals when she committed the offences, Reading Crown Court heard.
Gore-Strachan, of Monarch Drive, Shinfield, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Friday, April 22.
She had pleaded guilty to nine counts of fraud by abuse of position at the same court on January 26.
Gore-Strachan admitted carrying out four counts of fraud against Webtech Wireless and five against a company called Britannia Pharmaceuticals.
She was charged with the offences in November last year.
Between April 1, 2008, and December 31, 2012, while working as an accountant for Webtech Wireless, she defrauded the company of around £809,000 in total.
She did it by raising fraudulent invoices amounting to £130,983 payable to her own bank accounts.
She also made fictitious VAT penalty notices worth £91,536 and diverted payments worth £370,737 due to HMRC in respect of VAT and PAYE to her own accounts.
Gore-Strachan also diverted royalty payments worth £216,520 intended to be paid to a company called Globetrac to her own account.
She later became a financial director of Britannia Pharmaceuticals and, between March 1, 2013, and June 30, 2015, she defrauded the company of a total of £1,000,614.
She diverted rental payments worth £189,563 due to Britannia Pharmaceuticals to bank accounts in her own name and made payments from the company worth £312,379 to bank accounts using false non-existent or genuine invoices.
On March 10, 2014, she made a payment from Britannia Pharmaceuticals worth more than 36 million Japanese Yen (£207,565.63) to Kuowa, a company solely owned by her.
She set up a bank account in company name KUOVA (a similar name to the Japanese company)so she could receive stolen money.
Three days later on March 13, 2014 she diverted £260,000 – part of the proceeds of sale of a building owned by Britannia Pharmaceuticals to the solicitors acting for Webtech Wireless Inc. This was used by Gore-Strachan to settle, in part, a civil claim made against her by Webtech Wireless Inc.
She was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for the four offences relating to Webtech and six years’ imprisonment to run consecutively for the five offences relating to Britannia Pharmaceuticals.
Investigating officer, Detective Constable Stephanie Burleigh of Thames Valley Police economic crime unit, said: “This investigation uncovered deceit and fraud on a grand scale against two local employers.
“Evelyn Gore-Strachan betrayed the trust placed in her and abused her position to enrich herself and her associates.
“This has been a long and complex investigation and I trust that the conviction and sentence passed not only reassures our communities but also sends a message out that crime will not pay in the Thames Valley.” – BBC/Agencies

27 Replies to “UK:Zim Accountant Steals £1,8million”

  1. why even waste time replying that Fool called Brad. He is an open idiot and you should not waste your attention on him. Kana ari Phunyukabemphethe. Tateguru vakatengesa nyika Ne teas spoon ye shuga.

  2. why even waste time replying that Fool called Brad. He is an open idiot and you should not waste your attention on him. Kana ari Phunyukabemphethe. Tateguru vakatengesa nyika Ne teas spoon ye shuga.

  9. You are definately a crack pot. You are are the king of thieves who mastered the art of rape, pillage and incest. You are a homosexual peadophile. You came to our country to loot our natural resources whilst shagging our livestock. That is why we kicked you out. We learnt bad habits from you. Now go and fuck your mother and your son in the arse and then have a go at your dig as you love to do.

  10. You are definately a crack pot. You are are the king of thieves who mastered the art of rape, pillage and incest. You are a homosexual peadophile. You came to our country to loot our natural resources whilst shagging our livestock. That is why we kicked you out. We learnt bad habits from you. Now go and fuck your mother and your son in the arse and then have a go at your dig as you love to do.

  11. What a thieving fucking dirty Shona savage!!! They must kick them all out of the UK back to their home country the dirty despicable savages. Whatever they touch they destroy and if they can’t have it they steal it! What is it with this race??? Wherever they go they are trouble, look how they destroyed Zimbabwe and now expect us white folk to feed them…scum, they must be starved into submission to teach them a lesson!!!

  12. What a thieving fucking dirty Shona savage!!! They must kick them all out of the UK back to their home country the dirty despicable savages. Whatever they touch they destroy and if they can’t have it they steal it! What is it with this race??? Wherever they go they are trouble, look how they destroyed Zimbabwe and now expect us white folk to feed them…scum, they must be starved into submission to teach them a lesson!!!

  13. She must have flown back to Zim and I am sure the gvm would have given her a new identity at a fee in pounds. The country is broke.

  14. She must have flown back to Zim and I am sure the gvm would have given her a new identity at a fee in pounds. The country is broke.

  19. Nhai hazvanzi yangu, Evelyn, unotinyadzisirei kudaro? Watombowana mukana woita makaro so-o!!!!

  20. Nhai hazvanzi yangu, Evelyn, unotinyadzisirei kudaro? Watombowana mukana woita makaro so-o!!!!

  27. No surprises here. She is Shona. Everywhere the go in the world, they steal!!

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