Card transactions by proxy

[Francis Davey]

On 6 April 2011 09:47, Ian Batten <igb at batten.eu.org> wrote:
>
> Peter believes that employers are willing to breach the theft act and the fraud act, in collusion with banks, in order to do him down.  There's little arguing with that.
>

Well, he did say the employee was "in the US" so probably beyond the
reach of those statutes.

I doubt there's a theft act offence: no section 15A ("obtaining a
money transfer by deception") since there doesn't appear to be a
deception - and even if there was, if the employer thinks they are
acting honestly then they don't have the necessary mens rea. There's
certainly no section 1 offence because you can't "steal" a bank
balance.

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Francis Davey