Bank IT Worker Charged In $1 Million Fraud
July 6, 2010
Total Loss:
$1 Million
A previous IT staffer with Bank of New York Mellon pleaded guilty to theft responsive information belonging to 2,000 bank staff and then using that data to take further than $1 million from charities.
Adeniyi Adeyemi, 27, had worked as an agreement computer technician at Bank's Manhattan headquarters, and data he supposedly stole belonged above all to colleague in the bank's IT department.
He pleaded guilty to stealing, currency wash and PC tampering charges in New York City Criminal Court, the New York District Attorney's Office said in a report.
Source:
Techfuels.com
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Internal Fraud