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Pfizer lose out on 150k to an employee scam on viagra
A Pfizer office worker stole over £150,000 from her bosses to fund and expensive Lifestyle.
Carol Jones who was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court along with her husband for 19 months for stealing Viagra to fund holidays and spending sprees.
Apparently her husbands business was struggling but the couple managed to have a lifestyle like of “Keeping up with the Joneses”, Manchester Crown Court heard.
But they were caught out in spring 2007 when bosses at Pfizer became suspicious of why money had vanished.
Jones kept her husband “under the radar” while working with him to get payment from Pfizer for overpriced work. The couple also billed a firm responsible for facilities management for “phantom” work Pfizer had already paid for.
The couple, of Winsford, Cheshire, were convicted of false accounting, deception and fraud. Jones was jailed for 16 months and her husband for 19 months.