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Jail for stealing £22k; suspended sentence for stealing £1.6m

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 2 Dec 2009

A former asylum seeker who stole £22,000 of grant money from an advice charity he chaired has been jailed for 18 months, while in the same court the same week an aristocrat who stole £1.6m from his family charity was handed a two-year suspended sentence.

Ngoy Bin Ngoy, who set up the Sickle Cell Advice Bureau (SCAB) seven years ago, pleaded guilty at London’s Southwark Crown Court last week to theft of £22,249 from SCAB in 2002.

Seven assorted deception counts, which he denied, were "left on the file" and not proceeded with.

SCAB had received funding from the National Lottery, the Home Office and the Scarman Trust to provide information and support for those suffering from the inherited blood disorder. But none of it went to the cause.

Sentencing Ngoy, Judge Peter Testar said: "There can be no doubt that this is a case which attracts a custodial sentence.

"It is important when money is obtained by way of grants for charitable purposes that the public has confidence that the money thereby obtained is not used dishonestly."

Two-year suspended sentence for stealing £1.6m 

Meanwhile, in the same week Hon Jonathan Davies was given a two-year suspended sentence for stealing £1.6m from his family charity for Bosnian orphans.

Davies used the bulk of the funds siphoned from the Dinam Charity to assist a friend’s project of developing a new spark plug.

The betrayal was uncovered when a relative found a seven-figure hole in the accounts. 

Davies pleaded guilty at London’s Southwark Crown Court to ten counts of theft between 1999 and 2000, while he was the charity’s secretary.

Judge James Wadsworth handed him a two-year suspended sentence.

The Dinam Charity, which was set up by Davies’ philanthropist grandfather, the first Baron of Llandinam, is now in the process of being wound up.

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