In this month’s scandals, convictions and penalties, a senior civil servant jailed for stealing from the Ministry of Justice and property pair sentenced for dodging capital gains tax on over 50 properties
A senior civil servant has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail after he stole more than £1.7m from the Ministry of Justice.
Allan Williams was sentenced at the Southwark Crown Court for abusing his knowledge of the MoJ system for his own financial gain.
Williams, manager in the MoJ’s commercial and financial control sector, set up payment plans to a fake company.
He stole the money by creating a £7m purchase order for an IT services contract from Sopra Business Consulting – his made up business was described as an information and technology consultancy on Companies House.
He then set up a monthly payment to his fake business over two years, which was then transferred from the company’s account to his personal account.
