Called to Account: July 2019

In this month’s round up of the latest scandals, convictions and penalties, an accountant avoids jail over £90k expenses fiddle, a Porsche-loving fraudster gets four-year sentence, a charity finance manager is jailed for £170,000 invoice fraud while the Charity Commission finds serious mismanagement and misconduct by the trustees and CEO of a poverty aid charity

Accountant spared jail over £90k in phantom taxi trips 

A chartered accountant with Big Four accounting firm Deloitte, who billed bosses for over £90,000 in phantom Uber taxi journeys during a three-year expenses scam, has been spared jail.

Gurgyan Singh Kaley claimed he gambled away £1m online in five years while employed at the audit firm’s HQ in London.

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