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Jessica Harper admits £2.4m Lloyds Bank fraud
A former Lloyds Bank worker in charge of online security has admitted carrying out a £2.4m fraud. Jessica Harper, 50, had been accused of submitting false invoices to claim payments between 2007 and 2011. At the time she was working as head of fraud and security for digital banking and made false claims totalling £2,463,750. Harper, of South Croydon, south London, will be sentenced on 21 September. At Southwark Crown Court, Harper admitted a single charge of fraud by abuse of position by submitting false invoices to claim payments.....Read more hereYou must be logged in to post a comment.
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A former senior banking official who defrauded her employer of millions of pounds over four years is jailed.
A former head of online security at Lloyds Banking Group has been jailed for five years after defrauding the company of almost £2.5m. Jessica Harper, whose £60,000-a-year role included fighting fraud, submitted 93 false and doctored invoices to pay herself £2,463,750. The 50-year-old gave the money to friends and her three brothers to allow them to buy property. The fraud took place during the financial crisis when Lloyds received substantial amounts of taxpayers' money. Harper stole the money over four years by creating a dummy bank account in the name of an IT firm which carried out work for Lloyds. Southwark Crown Court heard she told police she deserved the money for showing "loyalty" to the firm when she could earn four times as much elsewhere, but denied personally benefiting from the fraud.....Read more here: Former Head Of Online Security At Lloyds Jailed