Man sentenced over fraud to pay for mother’s car insurance

A 35-year-old man from Caerphilly who fraudulently set up a direct debit from his ex-employer’s account to pay for his mother’s motor insurance has been sentenced following an investigation by the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department, part of the City of London Police.

Anthony Jones-Hughes was sentenced at Newport Magistrates’ Court to 20 weeks’ imprisonment (suspended for 12 months), to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and pay £841 in compensation and costs £620, having previously been found guilty of fraud by false representation.

In February 2012, whilst working for a traffic management company in Newport, Jones-Hughes set up a direct-debit on the company’s account to pay for the motor insurance for his mother’s Vauxhall Corsa.

Jones-Hughes left the company in July 2012, but the direct debit was spotted in April 2014 by the company’s finance department. When they checked with the insurer, they confirmed the policy had been taken out by Jones-Hughes to insure his mother’s vehicle and that he had provided the company’s account details for payments, which had totalled £841 up until March 2014.

The case was referred to IFED and officers arrested Jones-Hughes in December 2014. Despite not having authorisation to use the company account for personal use, he denied that he had set up the payments to come from the company account and blamed the insurance company.

However, after further enquiries, he was charged in October 2015 with fraud by false representation and was found guilty of the offence at Newport Magistrates’ Court the following month.

Detective Constable Clinton Bond from IFED, who investigated the case said: “Jones-Hughes abused his position in his company and set up a direct debit using the company account to pay for his mother’s car insurance. Throughout the investigation he denied any wrongdoing, but it was clear that he set out to defraud his company and he is now paying the price.”

 

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