UK Senior Manager Defrauded NHS
A senior manager who worked for 19 years within the NHS has received a sentence of 12 months imprisonment in addition to a suspension for 12 months and a required performance of 200 hours of voluntary community service due to being guilty of fraud, consequently discovered after an investigation by the NHS Counter Fraud Service.
Hasan Tahsin fraudulently earned £245,246 over five years between March 2004 and March 2009, due to making false claims about his credentials. After an audit of senior managers' qualifications was conducted at the Trust, he was arrested and interviewed in May 2009. It was then found out that he did not possess the university qualifications and memberships of professional bodies which he had claimed to have had on his application forms. These were vital requirements for the posts he held at five different NHS trusts.
For his crime, he received two offences of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and three offences of Fraud by False Representation.