Bank boss facing fraud charges
A former Stirling bank manager is to face trial accused of acting as an insider in an alleged criminal scam to defraud customers’accounts.
Christiane Stoner is charged with facilitating frauds to be carried out on customer accounts that resulted in losses to Barclays Bank of £112,400.
She is accused of entering into or becoming concerned in an arrangement which she knew or suspected facilitated the acquisition, retention, use or control, by or on behalf of another, of criminal property.
It is further alleged that between May 15 and August 29, 2013, at a Barclays branch in Murray Place, Stirling, she printed confidential Barclays Bank customer information, took images of Barclays Bank customers’ signatures from a bank system, and aided the alleged frauds by supplying the confidential data and signature images“to persons unknown”.
She faces six further charges under the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 of possessing or having under her control articles for use in committing fraud, namely images of the signatures of six Barclays Bank customers taken from the Barclays Bank system.
These offences are alleged to have occurred on July 9 or 10, 2013, at the Stirling branch.
At Falkirk Sheriff Court on Wednesday, Stoner, 43, of Carnbroe, Lanarkshire, pleaded not guilty to all seven charges.
Sheriff Robert Dickson continued the case for trial at a sitting starting on January 16 with a further preliminary hearing on January 11.