Redditch bank worker charged with theft and fraud involving £752,155 due before court (From Redditch Advertiser)
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Redditch bank worker charged with theft and fraud involving £752,155 due before court
2:20pm Saturday 23rd February 2013 in News
A REDDITCH man is to appear at Redditch Magistrates Court of Monday charged with theft and fraud involving amounts totalling £752,155.
Benjamin Osman Sookia, aged 26, is accused of three charges of thefts by employee, totalling £187,155 and three charges of fraud by abuse of position, totalling a further £565,000.
He was alleged to have committed the offences when he was a counter support officer working for Lloyds Banking Group at the Halifax Branch in Evesham Walk, Redditch.
The sums are alleged to have been taken from a central, non-customer account, over a period between Septemer 1, 2011 and July 11, 2012.