On 17 September 2021, Marek Siejka was sentenced to three years in prison after fraudulently claiming £719,505.70 worth of VAT claims from September 2012 to July 2019 while employed as an financial controller for Woodward and Co (Environmental) Ltd.

Gloucester Crown Court heard that Siejka from Newent, Gloucestershire worked for a plumbing, air conditioning, and heating business in Tewkesbury from 2004 until 2019 and in the autumn of 2012 he started submitting ‘low-level fraudulent VAT invoices’ with the payments going into his personal bank account.

Siejka took advantage of the bulk payment process, having presented fake invoices in amounts that would not attract attention with invoices that were made in names that were similar to those that the company had already approved.