Greedy fraudster to give birth behind bars after being jailed for stealing £ 360,000 | United Kingdom news

A greedy scammer will give birth behind bars after being jailed for stealing more than £ 360,000 from her employer.

Derby’s Lynette Alptekin used the money to buy a car, a house and finance travel abroad.

The 40-year-old woman abused her position of trust in a family business to create fake invoices and fake suppliers to transfer money to her own bank accounts for four years.

Alptekin, who is already seriously pregnant, left Clay Cross’s Carlton Technologies in 2019.

It wasn’t until a new financial controller noticed the bank’s discrepancies that the theft came to light, with dubious payments in 10 different bank accounts, each between £ 60,000 and £ 3,000.

In a statement affecting the victim, company director Max Crampton told Derby Crown Court that he had been forced to lay off one person and take out a personal loan against his family home.

“Our credit rating has been destroyed and we have struggled financially. The impact of the fraud will affect us for years to come,” he said, according to Derbyshire Live.

The company almost closed due to financial loss.

Prosecutor Aaron Dines said: “There were 246 suspicious payments in 10 different bank accounts totaling 362,103.73 pounds.

“She (Alptekin) said she did not know how much money she took, but used it to buy a house and travel to Turkey. She said she was “not in a good position”.

Appearing in court on Wednesday (April 20th), Alptekin pleaded guilty to fraud through abuse of office.

She was sentenced to three years in prison.

Record holder Justin Wigoder described her as a greedy woman.

He said: “The impact is graphically illustrated by the victim’s impact statement. The impact on the business was very almost final and the impact on them personally was huge.”

Ali Naseem Bajwa QC, mitigating guilt, said his client was due to give birth in June and that she was aware of the seriousness of her crime.

The Derbyshire Police Financial Investigation Team is continuing to work on the case under the Crime Proceeds Act in an attempt to return as much money as possible to the victim.