Embezzlement

Peter Murrell has had his legal aid withdrawn after details of his financial circumstances emerged, The Scotsman reports. The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) confirmed that it has stopped funding the former SNP chief executive, who was jailed for five years in June after pleading guilty to embezzlin

A former lawyer who embezzled £120,000 from a pensioner suffering from dementia and living in a nursing home has been jailed for two years. John Sinclair, 69, of Aberdeen, stole the money from the woman, who was in her nineties, after being granted power of attorney in 2014.

A woman has been jailed for 22 months after she embezzled more than £239,000 while working for James McVicar Printers as an accounts manager. Sarah Cockburn abused her position of trust at the firm to make 799 payments into her own bank accounts while working there from January 2013 to Ju

Prosecutors are seeking to recover more than £1.5 million from a former architect who embezzled hundreds of thousands of pounds from a charity. Ian Brash admitted embezzling £358,832 from the Dr Robert Malcolm Trust between August 12, 2010 and September 10, 2014 when he appeared at Edinb