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Former GT assistant manager embezzles £726,000 of charity cash
A former assistant manager at Grant Thornton UK has pleaded guilty to embezzling over £726,000 from trusts set up to help charities.
Susan McMahon, 34 from Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday, pleading guilty to embezzling £726,765 between May 2004 and May 2013, reports The BBC.
McMahon, in her role at Grant Thornton, was responsible for disbursing money to charity via cheque on behalf of a number of trusts. She falsified documents so her superiors would authorise cheques, believing the trustees had agreed the money would go to various charity beneficiaries.
The court was told six trusts had funds belonging to them fraudulently removed and paid out to her or her husband’s accounts. Her husband is said to have had no knowledge of his wife’s crimes.
MPs' expenses claims must be disclosed in full, court of appeal rules
Receipts and invoices submitted by politicians for their expenses claims must be disclosed, following a test case ruling by leading judges, reports The Guardian.
IPSA had appealed a ruling which ordered it to release copies of politicians’ invoices and receipts.
The information commissioner’s office reacted positively to the decision. Graham Smith, the deputy commissioner, said: “Our view has always been that there are additional details in the documents over and above the information already disclosed and that there is a clear public interest in this information being released.”
44.4% of UK online transactions are on mobile devices
44.4% of online payments in the UK were made using a mobile device up from 36.9% for the corresponding period in 2014 – with smartphones accounting for 66% of that figure compared with 64.9% in 2014, according to the latest Adyen mobile payments index.
Overall, more than a quarter (27.5%) of global online payments was made via mobile in the first quarter of 2015.