Police have charged a former Forster bank manager after she allegedly stole $665,000 from customers’ accounts.
A FORMER Forster bank manager has been charged with larceny after she allegedly stole $665,000 from customers’ accounts.
A 45-year-old Hallidays Point woman attended Taree Police Station about 4pm yesterday (Tuesday May 15) and was charged with larceny as a clerk.
It will be alleged the woman, who managed a Forster bank branch between July 2007 and August 2011, stole money from customers’ term deposits – covering her tracks using false letters and documents.
Manning/Great Lakes Detectives conducted a complex investigation into the woman’s alleged fraudulent activities and were assisted by State Crime Command’s Fraud and Cybercrime Squad and the bank’s own investigators.
She will appear in Forster Local Court on Wednesday June 27.
