Reporting someone to the police for misappropriation of funds of an estate?

Pennylane

uknick said:

Pennylane said:

Police won’t involve themselves in anything like this. A family member stole a lot of money and  items left to me in a Will from my parents  house and the Police did nothing. I insisted they at least tried so they went round to his house, he slammed the door in their face and the Police Officer came back to me and said “there is nothing more I can do.”  We knew without doubt it was him as he was the only other person with a key and there was no break in.  

Very sorry to hear that.  Sounds very much like the police treated it as they would a burglary, far too much trouble to investigate.  I apologise for being nosey, and tell me to n**f off if you want, but were the items stolen before your parent died?  If after one wonders how they got access to the money.

Before the parent died. 

ca213

Ibits4321 said:

Does anyone have experience of this? Quick overview: person died intestate and one of his children became executor and had the letter of administration granted two years ago. They have not distributed the estate to their siblings and when the siblings have enquired when they will receive their money the executor has gone no-contact with their siblings and blocked them from every platform possible. Before going no- contact they were very visibly spending money in a way that they didn't used to before.

This is theft/fraud, surely? A police officer friend has said the police wouldn't be interested. Is this true? Surely not? I googled and saw some people have gone to prison for abusing their position as executor so it must be possible to report to police. My question is if it's not a 101 job who do you report it to?

After I discovered my brother had withdrawn tens of thousands of pounds from my mum's bank account I reported it to the police - I had bank statements to prove it.  They initially brushed me off saying it was 'civil'.   I complained to the Chief Constable for the area and within weeks an investigation was started.  It's taking quite a long time but I'm prepared to wait before I take things further through the civil courts.  

I understand the police haven't got the manpower to investigate all reports but if you have definite black and white proof it's worth pushing it.