Sign up to the MyStockport newsletter to keep up with all the top stories A woman in Stockport was arrested after £10,000 was secured as part of a series of fraudulent Covid ‘bounce back’ loans.
Last Wednesday (September 22), officers executed a search warrant at an address in Stockport. A 32-year-old woman was arrested on conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering offences. Read more: Emotional nurse calls for NHS staff to get priority at the fuel pumps as she asks: "What if we can’t get to work?" During the search warrant, police seized a number of electronic devices and paperwork from the address.
The fraud involved using false information to secure ‘bounce back’ loans from a variety of financial institutions through ‘unrelated