3:44pm Monday 21st March 2011

http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/8922589.Man_who_helped_invent_care_home_jailed/

A MAN who helped an NHS worker steal £117,000 has been jailed for three years after the pair made up a care home which never existed.

Bodylon Fayoyin, 47, of River View, Chadwell St Mary, Grays, Essex played a central role in tricking money out of Buckinghamshire NHS Primary Care Trust.

He appeared at Aylesbury Crown Court on Friday while his partner in crime, Ololade Ibieronke Mabun, of Aiston Place, Aylesbury is still on the run after being sentenced to four years imprisonment in her absence last month.

Mabun, who worked as a continuing care manager at the Primary Care Trust in Oxford Road, High Wycombe invented a care home called Made House.

She siphoned a total of £117,812.30 from the NHS in payments for five imaginary residents at the home, whose identities were stolen from an NHS continuing care register.

Fayoyin transferred the money to other accounts, where investigators later recovered more than £46,000, which has since been returned to the NHS.

He was found guilty of Possessing Criminal Property and Converting Criminal Property.

The money stolen came directly from funds for the continuing care of patients, including the terminally ill.

Between April and July 2009 the PCT paid out on 31 invoices from the fictitious home but when concerns were raised about the contract Mabun's contract manager tried to visit the care home and found no street or care home existed in the area.

The contract manager rang the home's number and was called back by a man who said he was the “manager” and gave a false name. He updated the PCT by phone and email about the Made House residents and said three had died, one was in hospital and one was on holiday in Poland.

Investigators later traced calls made by Mabun to the number on the fake invoices.

It was found the Made House email account was accessed regularly from a computer in Nigeria and once from a computer in the UK registered to Mabun.

The email account for Made House was regularly accessed from a computer in Nigeria, but also once from a computer in the UK - registered to Mabun.

Mabun was suspended and dismissed by the Trust for gross misconduct.

Nicole McLaughlin, south east operational fraud manager for NHS Counter Fraud Service, said: "Mabun’s actions were a shock to her NHS colleagues as well as to the public, and we are pleased that her partner in crime, Bodylon Fayoyin, is now behind bars.”