{"id":260505,"date":"2026-01-27T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/260505\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:54:08","slug":"bogus-cardiff-healthcare-worker-used-fake-id-to-scam-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/260505\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus Cardiff healthcare worker used fake ID to scam NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

David GrundyBBC Wales, Cardiff Crown Court<\/p>\n

\"BBCBBC<\/p>\n

Oluwabunmu Adeleiyi was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for each offence, to run concurrently, which was suspended for two years<\/p>\n

A woman with no formal medical qualifications defrauded the NHS by working as a health care support worker using a false ID, a court has heard.<\/p>\n

Oluwabunmu Adeleiyi, 30, a Nigerian national living in Canton, Cardiff, on a student visa, worked at Neath Port Talbot Hospital and at the Caswell Clinic in Bridgend.<\/p>\n

Cardiff Crown Court heard she and two accomplices used the same IDs to bill the NHS about \u00a316,000 a month through different employment agencies.<\/p>\n

Adeleiyi admitted four counts of fraud by false representation and was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for each offence, to run concurrently and to be suspended for two years.<\/p>\n

Two of the counts of fraud by false representation related to the hospital in Port Talbot and two to the medium secure mental health unit in Bridgend.<\/p>\n

The court heard the fraud came to light when Adeleiyi checked out at the end of a night shift at the Caswell Clinic.<\/p>\n

A receptionist noticed that a passport photo had been placed on the ID card, which was kept in a plastic wallet.<\/p>\n

When challenged, Adeleiyi refused to hand over shift documentation.<\/p>\n

The issue was escalated to senior management at the Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) who declared a critical incident.<\/p>\n

‘Patients and staff put at risk’<\/p>\n

The health board’s investigation found staff had noticed “bizarre” behaviour during her shifts, including locking herself in a room on a ward.<\/p>\n

She also locked doors in corridors that were not allowed to be locked in case of fire or if staff were needed to help deal with violent patients.<\/p>\n

Adeleiyi, who had no training in restraint techniques, had access to confidential patient notes and made additions to observation notes herself.<\/p>\n

The court heard health bosses said the potential risks “could have been catastrophic”.<\/p>\n

Adeleiyi used the ID of a registered healthcare support worker who fled from the UK to Nigeria using a false passport.<\/p>\n

Judge Recorder Mark Powell KC told Adeleiyi: “You put the patients at risk… you put staff at risk.”<\/p>\n

Adeleiyi was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community service.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the hearing, Neil Jones, lead counter fraud specialist for SBUHB, said: “Today’s sentence serves to illustrate that any fraud perpetrated against the NHS, especially where individuals target vulnerable patients or staff will be investigated fully and dealt with through the judicial system.”<\/p>\n

He said Adeleiyi had used fraudulent nursing agency identification supplied by an overseas organised crime group.<\/p>\n

“Thankfully, she had minimal interaction with patients and a review carried out by the health board determined that no harm was caused to any patients,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David GrundyBBC Wales, Cardiff Crown Court BBC Oluwabunmu Adeleiyi was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for each offence,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-260505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}