FD Stole £1.5million

Monday, 7th June 2021 at 6:19pm

The Coventry Telegraph website reports that a finance director stole almost £1.5 million from a Coventry firm to fund his “expensive tastes”, which included a Harrods loyalty card.

Ashif Zackaria spent £500,000 of the stolen money on at least 180 luxury fountain pens from high-end brands like Mont Blanc and Patek Philippe.

Zackaria paid off his personal credit cards, signed off cheques totalling £222,000 to family members, and wrote others for £219,000 to a Northampton-based firm run by a friend with no clear business links to his employer.

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