It can happen anywhere.
“A former employee of West Sussex County Council who set up fake social enterprises to defraud the authority of more than £91,000 has been given a 30-month prison sentence.
Pepe Chisenga, 54, of Little Corner, Waterlooville, Hampshire, was a senior contracts officer in the drug and alcohol team at West Sussex in October 2012.
She engineered service level agreements with the social enterprise companies, of which she was a director.
… On the face of it they appeared to be legitimate companies but in fact offered no service to the council, employed no real people and were based at ‘mail drop’ addresses. This evidence was key in showing that the money was put into numerous bank accounts and spent on personal expenditure.”
East Devon Watch 