Homeworker found guilty of defrauding Advantage
A homeworker who defrauded Advantage Travel Partnership of tens of thousands of pounds has been handed a suspended jail sentence.
Rita Hunter, who ran Hunters Travel in Liverpool, was ordered to pay back £33,000 to the consortium.
Hunter admitted using former customers’ credit and debit cards to pay for new bookings through the consortium, while directing the money to her own accounts.
Many of those customers were able to claim back losses from card providers, but Advantage was obliged to honour the bookings.
Advantage said it noticed irregularities within six weeks of Hunter joining the consortium in October 2014 when it started to receive chargebacks from merchant acquirers.