A WOMAN student called Ding, who became involved in a scam in which money was transferred to a man called Dong as part of a £250,00 fraud on Thurrock Council, has been sentenced to 180 hours unpaid work.
The former business and economics undergraduate at Swansea University 24-year-old Ding Ding, who now lives in Peckham, South London, was found guilty of receiving £15,000 as her part of the scam.
At her trial earlier this year Ding had denied the money laundering offences of possessing criminal property and transferring criminal property totalling £34,000. She was convicted of one offence involving £15,000.
The charges arose out of fraud committed on Thurrock Borough Council. The alarm was raised in May 2006 when the council’s chief financial officer called police in following an investigation into the loss of significant amounts of money.
The court had been told that a new computer system had been introduced on 1 April, 2006 and that between then and 26 May 1,000 invoices were paid and 21 were fraudulent.
Ding was arrested after a transfer of money from one of her bank accounts to others, among them a man called Dong.
She returned to Chelmsford Crown Court for sentencing.
Sparing her jail, Judge Christopher Ball told her: “You are a student able to study over here thanks to the generosity of your parents. It’s not much of a way to reward your parents for the sacrifice they have made."
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