Ex-LV= employee sentenced for leaking confidential information to CMC in return for bribe

CMC employee charged with issuing bribe

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An ex employee of LV= has been charged with accepting a bribe from a claims management company in order to leak confidential information.

Stephen Karl Oates, 26 of Bournemouth appeared at Bournemouth Magistrates Court last Friday (16 September). Appearing alongside Oates was Aisha Elliot, 23 from Yeovil, who was employed by a claims management company at the time and was charged with issuing a bribe. Detective chief inspector Oliver Little, from the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department, said it was the first time the department had charged suspects with bribery offences. He said: "Fraud within the insurance industry is taken extremely seriously - whether it's members of the public looking to submit false claims for...

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