A Metropolitan Police officer has pleaded not guilty to a string of fraud and corruption charges after allegedly claiming she had never received thousands of pounds worth of luxury goods she had ordered online — including a Cartier wedding band, a Dior bikini and a Moncler jacket.
Sunna Harrison-Aziz, 28, of Coulsdon in south London, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday to deny ten charges including five counts of corrupt or improper exercise of police powers, four counts of fraud by false representation and one count of perverting the course of justice. She spoke only to confirm her name before entering her not guilty pleas.
According to the indictment, Harrison-Aziz made false claims to retailers that she had not received goods she had ordered. The alleged frauds include claiming she had not received a Dior bikini worth £700, a Cartier Mini Love wedding band valued at £1,920 and a Moncler Abelle jacket costing £840. She is also accused of telling Currys she had never received an Apple MacBook worth £2,599 — allegedly making a total of four such fraudulent claims against different luxury and retail brands.
The charges go further than straightforward fraud. Harrison-Aziz is additionally accused of accessing police databases improperly on five separate occasions between January and September 2022 — allegedly to generate fraudulent receipts claims for the luxury goods and to carry out checks on behalf of third parties. She also faces a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice, with prosecutors alleging she hid her iPhone from police during a search of her home, lied that she had lost it and that it was broken, and then allegedly destroyed the handset after officers had left.
Appearing alongside Harrison-Aziz in court was co-defendant Edgar Morais, 30, of Croydon, who denied a single count of encouraging Harrison-Aziz to corruptly or improperly exercise her police powers. A third defendant, Eugene Nunoo, 30, of Eastbourne, faces the same charge and is due to be arraigned on 9 June. All three will appear at a case management hearing on 21 July.
Harrison-Aziz, described as a former Met PC, was charged following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Anti-Corruption and Abuse Command, conducted under the direction of the Independent Office for Police Conduct. She was released on unconditional bail.
Judge Nicholas Rimmer apologised to the defendants for the length of time before the case would be heard, saying the trial date of 27 March 2028 was simply “the earliest available date.” He said: “I am sorry it’s so far away but that’s simply the case for the court here and up and down the land.”
