Jailed banker returns to court September
DISGRACED BANK manager, Andrea Gordon, who is serving a 90-month prison sentence for robbing the National Commercial Bank (NCB) of $34 million, is to return to the Home Circuit Court on September 17 in relation to the Assets Recovery Agency’s plans to recoup her ill-gotten assets.
The case was scheduled yesterday in the Home Circuit Court for Gordon to settle her legal representation and for a case management hearing pertaining to an application for forfeiture and pecuniary penalty order.
But when the case was mentioned, the court heard that Gordon is yet to contract a lawyer, hence she was given until September to secure legal representation.
The 52-year-old mother of two was sentenced to five years and four months on three counts of larceny as a servant, two years and 11 months on three counts of access with intent to commit an offence, and to seven years and six months on seven counts of engaging in a transaction involving criminal property on April 29.
The former bank executive, who had worked with NCB for 30 years, was arrested last June after the bank received intelligence that she had been conducting fraudulent transactions.
Based on subsequent investigations, it was discovered that she transferred money from the bank’s internal system to her personal accounts and also to her family members as well as accounts belonging to customers.
Gordon had used the funds to purchase items including clothing, handbags and to fund construction work on her Coolwater Avenue, Havendale premises in St Andrew.
However, when confronted about the embezzlement, Gordon told investigators that she took the money to assist a relative who had cancer and also because she was going through financial difficulties after she started building her home in 2017.
But Gordon at the time of her arrest was earning $11 million per year.