A Local Counter Fraud Specialist identified more than 1500 forged optical claim forms submitted by the defendant, the owner of an optical outlet, but not qualified in his own right. Following a counter fraud investigation, the defendant was arrested and admitted falsifying a number of general optical forms that were presented to him during interview. He was charged with 29 counts of false accounting and had a further 847 offences taken into consideration. He pleaded guilty in court to all 29 charges and was handed down a 12-month custodial sentence.

An investigation by police and counter fraud staff was initiated into a senior dispensing GP when concerns were raised, by his practice partner, regarding financial irregularities. Investigators discovered that the defendant had commissioned a local printing firm to produce blank invoices in the names of 9 pharmaceutical companies, 7 of which were fictitious. They found more than 1000 of the completed invoices that they had recovered were false and they examined in the region of 4000 prescriptions and found that only about 15% of these were genuine. The defendant was prosecuted and pleaded guilty in court to 14 counts of obtaining money by deception and 36 counts of false accounting. Also taken into consideration were 1018 similar offences. The defendant had defrauded the NHS of £676,000 and the court found that he had benefited to the tune of £799,000. He was sentenced to a custodial term of 3 years and 9 months and at a subsequent confiscation hearing he was ordered to repay £88,000 within three months with the remaining £711,000 being allocated from his pension