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Cardiff businesswoman committed £58k fraud while overseeing construction project

A woman carried out a £58,000 fraud while overseeing a residential development. Construction entrepreneur Chloe Warman, from Cardiff , presented four fake invoices in connection to a build on the site of a former care home in Newport's Fields Park Road. The 29-year-old admitted four counts of fraud by false representation. Cardiff Crown Court heard she submitted the invoices while supervising the construction of nine homes on the site. She admitted presenting false invoices to make gains of £27,830, £12,387, £12,186 and £6,193 for herself – a total of £58,596. Warman, of Ferntree Drive in Trowbridge, committed the offences between July 10 and August 30, 2023. At the time she was the director of a Newport-based construction firm called Imperial Designer Homes, which was dissolved in April by compulsory strike-off from the Companies House register. Judge Matthew Porter-Bryant imposed a jail term of 12 months suspended for 24 months, a 120-hour unpaid work order, prosecution costs of £500 and a victim services surcharge of £187. There will not be a proceeds of crime hearing as Warman made no financial gain from the fraud and there was no loss for the victim.