An Ernst & Young executive assistant and her husband have been given prison sentences for a £76,000  fraud carried out by the couple over four years, using credit card and personal details stolen from a large number of EY employees

The boss of a greetings card business has been disqualified for six years after approving transactions that were detrimental to creditors, who were owed over £1.7m when the company went into liquidation

In this month’s round up of the latest scandals, convictions and penalties, an ex-KPMG accountant is jailed over PCAOB inspection tip offs, a gambling-addicted Devon dairy trader sentenced in £900k VAT scam, a call centre boss and accountant get seven and a half years for £2.3m tax con, a builder is put behind bars for £100k tax fraud and a bouncy castle director gets banned

An accountant at a haulage company has been jailed for three years while his boss received a 30-month sentence after lying about VAT, National Insurance Contribution and PAYE payments

Lavish lifestyle of Ferraris and Aston Martins revealed as duo who hid money in bathroom safe are sentenced after investigation into a £1.5m VAT fraud

A west London money transmitter has been landed with a £7.8m penalty after it ignored anti-money laundering regulations following an HMRC investigation

A restaurateur behind Glasgow’s Cyan Restaurant has been disqualified for nine years after failing to pay a £195,000 VAT bill.

Data from leaked documents as well as global information sharing agreements have helped boost the UK’s public coffers by £1.9bn following investigations into the tax affairs of wealthy individuals, according to law firm Pinsent Masons  

A market trader from Devon has been jailed for stealing more than £900,000 in VAT repayments to fund a gambling addiction

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is warning employers not to put their head in the sand after one business ended up with a £350,000 fine from the watchdog for failing to comply with auto enrolment pension rules

The director of a bouncy castle hire company has been banned for £240,000 of tax offences similar to those that resulted in her husband’s disqualification four years earlier

Court cases involving alleged fraud dropped in value in the first half of 2019 to £319m, down from £345m in the same period last year, but there are signs cybercrime is becoming more sophisticated and fraudsters are sometimes repeat offenders

Charity Commission regulatory intervention has seen the reopening of a London school which was sold and shut by a trustee, who was responsible for serious misconduct and governance failings

A Bournemouth builder who evaded almost £110,000 in tax has been jailed over unpaid income tax and NICs 

Brazilian striker and ex-Chelsea star Diego Costa, who now plays for Atletico Madrid, is to pay €1.7m (£1.5m) to Spanish tax authorities to settle allegations of non-payment of taxes on image rights