Fraudster gets 150,000 euros with a legal job at a bank
For two years, a 35-year-old led a private bank in Frankfurt by the nose. Then the boss got suspicious.
Frankfurt – The public prosecutor’s office has brought charges against a woman who used fake diplomas to get a well-paid job at a private bank in Frankfurt Frankfurt should have swindled. The 35-year-old woman is accused of serious fraud and forgery, as public prosecutor Nadja Niesen announced on Friday (9 September).
In March 2018, the woman is said to have presented the fakes made using a color copier at an interview. Accordingly, she had obtained a bachelor’s degree with the grade “very good” from the University of Hamburg and also successfully studied law at a Paris university.
Imposter refers to super salary in the Frankfurt private bank
According to Niesen, the accused worked for two years for a gross monthly salary of 5,700 euros at the private bank. Of the picture she calculates as a commercial lawyer in banking and capital market law. In the course of this time, however, doubts about her performance apparently arose, prompting her superiors to investigate. After the end of the allegedly fraudulent cooperation, the damage caused by the wrongly paid salary is believed to be 154,500 euros.
According to Niesen, the 35-year-old has confessed. It is not yet clear when the trial against the suspected impostor will take place before the Frankfurt District Court. Meanwhile, at the beginning of August, a man who posed as a flight captain was arrested. The scammer did not get on the plane. But with his tricks he pulled the money out of the pockets of the victims in Frankfurt by the dozen. (red/dpa)