Rita Ora among £3.4m fraud victims

An accountant has admitted defrauding high-profile clients, including pop star Rita Ora, out of about £3.4m. Andrew Munday, 37, targeted the former X Factor judge and others, using the money from the fraud to buy houses. His offences took place while he was employed by now-defunct accountancy firm Blue Cube Business Ltd, police said.

Munday, of Velocette Way, Northampton, pleaded guilty at the town’s crown court to nine counts of fraud. After the case Ora’s lawyer Graham Shear, of international legal firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, said a “substantial part” of the money taken from his client had been recovered.