Companies admit £70m Royal Mail scam

Three companies have admitted fraud after the Royal Mail was conned out of at least £70m. Tiger International Logistics Ltd, Worldwide Transport Express Ltd and Global Express Worldwide Ltd lied to postal companies between May 2008 and May 2017. The firms gave untrue and misleading declarations about the quantity, weight, class and destination of mail to defrayd the Royal Mail and other operators. A week into the trial at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Philip Bartle KC told jurors there had…