Evelyn Gore-Strachan a UK based Zimbabwean woman has been jailed for 12 years in Jail in Reading England after being convicted of 9 counts of accounting fraud.
Evelyn Strachan who was earning a 6 figure salary of more than £100 000 per year engaged in fraudulent accounting offences in the past 5 years while working for Webtech Wireless and Britannia Pharmaceuticals in Reading Town UK.
Gore forged fictitious HMRC tax penalty invoices and paid huge sums of money into her own bank accounts. At one point she also paid huge sums of money close to £300 000 into Japanese Companies registered in her name.
On March 10, 2014, she made a payment from Britannia Pharmaceuticals worth more than £207 565 to firm known as Kuowa, a business owned by her.
She went on to set up another bank account in company named KUOVA and diverted £260,000 to this company’s bank account.
In total the two companies employing Evelyn Gore lost a combined sum of £1,8 million.
Evelyn Gore-Strachan(pictured)pleaded guilty to all the charges.