A Vision Express worker has been ordered to pay £300 compensation to his former employer after a staggering fraud worth more than £75,000. After a financial investigation delved into Ravinder Saini's assets, the total recoverable amount, with interest, was determined to be £82,552 from a joint benefit figure of £136,868.
A judge said the order should contain a phrase to read: "£82,552 of the recoverable amount specified in this confiscation order represents a benefit received" by the defendant and a co-accused.
His co-accused, dealt with separately by the courts, is an individual who had been ordered to pay £290 compensation to Vision Express. Saini's realisable asset was £300. Their finances were looked at under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, where proceeds of crime is the money or assets gained by criminals whilst undertaking criminal activities and money laundering.
