TfL HR Worker Caught Running £650k Tax Scam Using Staff Data. In April 2026, Luciana Akanbi — a business service call advisor in Transport for London's HR department since 2017, based in Dartford, Kent — was convicted following a trial at Woolwich Crown Court and sentenced to three years and nine months in prison after being found guilty of fraud and money laundering offences connected to a scheme that generated nearly £650,000 in false tax-rebate claims against HMRC. Between September 2021 and January 2022, Akanbi used her authenticated access to TfL's personnel systems to harvest the passport numbers, National Insurance numbers, and bank details of 40 colleagues from 107 personnel records, then worked with her husband Femi Akanbi — who received an identical sentence — to submit 139 fraudulent self-assessment rebate claims across 38 devices, many operated from the couple's home. Approximately £433,000 was paid out from the public purse before investigators traced the digital trail from Akanbi's own login credentials directly to the couple's bank accounts. After her arrest, she attempted to redirect suspicion toward her husband's cousin, an IT worker, despite the authenticated access log running straight from her own credentials. Judge David Miller described the scheme as the worst data breach in TfL's history; the 40 affected colleagues were subjected to prolonged identity checks and additional procedures that eroded trust across the organisation, including one colleague whose bank account was frozen for eleven weeks while investigators worked to establish he had not been a willing participant. Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved. - @thegeniusmanofficial