Finance Controller Stole £6.7m

Friday, 25th March 2022 at 4:58pm

The Manchester Evening News website reports that a financial controller stole £6.7 million from the cash reserves of his employer, despite earning over £80k per year.

James Hall stole to ‘secure the financial security of his wife and children’ but then lost most of the money gambling on the FTSE 100 index.

Hall worked for Merseyside-based shop fitting business Vale UK since 1996 and had become good friends with the managing director Paul Henerty, who described him as a “great asset to the company” and trusted him implicitly.

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