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Case A
Two greedy RBS bankers used their jobs to run £3million property fraud. Andrew Ratnage, 50, and his boss Raymond Pask, 54, guilty of scam
Pair set up fake companies and used relatives' names to get mortgages
Bankers borrowed £3m and bought five homes in London, Kent and Essex
All the cash came from their own bank NatWest, which is owned by RBS.
The scam also boosted their bonuses to more than £50,000-a-year - on one occasion taking it to £78,000 for Ratnage.
The mortgage applications were submitted to their own bank without the pair ever revealing who was behind them and they also decided to forge documents to inflate the value of homes.
Once their own bank, which is majority-owned by the taxpayer, lent them the cash they were able to buy two properties in fashionable Stoke Newington in north-east London and another yards from the sea in Whitstable, Kent.
Two more were also bought in east London and Essex.
At one stage Pask was living in a house worth more than £1million and sitting on a £1.2million pension pot.
Case B
Couple swindled up to £1million from the NHS [National Health Service] to fund their luxury lifestyle of globetrotting and flashy cars
Couple supplied equipment and services to the NHS at inflated prices
They pocketed £300,000, but the value of the fraud was around £1million
Used profits to buy holiday homes in Cyprus, Dubai and the Lake District
They also bought a brand new Jaguar convertible and a Mercedes.
Leigh worked for the NHS in purchasing and was responsible for buying mostly computers and other office equipment for various NHS departments. His partner Hancox also worked for the NHS.
For more than seven years, Leigh used a company called Action Direct Technology Ltd - of which his partner Hancox was the owner, sole shareholder and company director - to buy overpriced goods and defraud his employer the NHS.
The pair also used Bibi's IT Solutions Ltd and Wiscom Technology Ltd as a front to disguise their ongoing fraud between January 2001 and October 2008.
Sgt Laura Walters, of GMP, said: 'This couple were involved in an well-orchestrated and meticulously planned conspiracy to defraud the NHS out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
'This was not a get-rich-quick scheme - this was a sustained criminal enterprise stretching over seven years. Seven years is a long time to see the error of your ways but these individuals showed no remorse for their actions.
'In fact, we believe the very reason they switched companies later on was to cover up what they had done should there ever be an investigation. We also seized hundreds of email exchanges which showed they went to great lengths to cover their tracks by cooking the books to give them an air of authenticity.
'It is also clear they used the proceeds of their criminal activity to live a lavish lifestyle - the couple had a holiday home in the Lake District and they also invested in property in the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus.
'I also want to stress this is by no means a victimless crime. It is the NHS they scammed out of thousands of pounds - money which the NHS badly needs for the treatment of people with genuine illness. Every penny they plundered is money that was diverted away from someone in desperate need of medical treatment.
Case A
Two greedy RBS bankers used their jobs to run £3million property fraud. Andrew Ratnage, 50, and his boss Raymond Pask, 54, guilty of scam
Pair set up fake companies and used relatives' names to get mortgages
Bankers borrowed £3m and bought five homes in London, Kent and Essex
All the cash came from their own bank NatWest, which is owned by RBS.
The scam also boosted their bonuses to more than £50,000-a-year - on one occasion taking it to £78,000 for Ratnage.
The mortgage applications were submitted to their own bank without the pair ever revealing who was behind them and they also decided to forge documents to inflate the value of homes.
Once their own bank, which is majority-owned by the taxpayer, lent them the cash they were able to buy two properties in fashionable Stoke Newington in north-east London and another yards from the sea in Whitstable, Kent.
Two more were also bought in east London and Essex.
At one stage Pask was living in a house worth more than £1million and sitting on a £1.2million pension pot.
Case B
Couple swindled up to £1million from the NHS [National Health Service] to fund their luxury lifestyle of globetrotting and flashy cars
Couple supplied equipment and services to the NHS at inflated prices
They pocketed £300,000, but the value of the fraud was around £1million
Used profits to buy holiday homes in Cyprus, Dubai and the Lake District
They also bought a brand new Jaguar convertible and a Mercedes.
Leigh worked for the NHS in purchasing and was responsible for buying mostly computers and other office equipment for various NHS departments. His partner Hancox also worked for the NHS.
For more than seven years, Leigh used a company called Action Direct Technology Ltd - of which his partner Hancox was the owner, sole shareholder and company director - to buy overpriced goods and defraud his employer the NHS.
The pair also used Bibi's IT Solutions Ltd and Wiscom Technology Ltd as a front to disguise their ongoing fraud between January 2001 and October 2008.
Sgt Laura Walters, of GMP, said: 'This couple were involved in an well-orchestrated and meticulously planned conspiracy to defraud the NHS out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
'This was not a get-rich-quick scheme - this was a sustained criminal enterprise stretching over seven years. Seven years is a long time to see the error of your ways but these individuals showed no remorse for their actions.
'In fact, we believe the very reason they switched companies later on was to cover up what they had done should there ever be an investigation. We also seized hundreds of email exchanges which showed they went to great lengths to cover their tracks by cooking the books to give them an air of authenticity.
'It is also clear they used the proceeds of their criminal activity to live a lavish lifestyle - the couple had a holiday home in the Lake District and they also invested in property in the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus.
'I also want to stress this is by no means a victimless crime. It is the NHS they scammed out of thousands of pounds - money which the NHS badly needs for the treatment of people with genuine illness. Every penny they plundered is money that was diverted away from someone in desperate need of medical treatment.
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