Cam pervert and Fringe fraudster are banned from working as accountants
Norman Silvester An accountant who set up spy cameras to film colleagues in the toilets has been struck off.
Mark Logan preyed on his co-workers over a 12-month period while he was working as finance director at property management firm Wheatley Group.
Loga n i s one of two Scot s accountants barred by professional watchdog body ICAS after disciplinary probes into criminal offences.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society finance manager Lynn Taylor, 56, was struck off after admitting embezzling £225,000 from her employers.
Logan appeared before Glasgow Sheriff Court in March and admitted planting cameras in an office toilet to secretly film colleagues.
The 48-year-old from Bearsden, near Glasgow, used clocks fitted with hidden cameras to make 685 videos over a year, 341 of them recorded in the toilet at his firm’s Glasgow city centre HQ.
He also made secret films of colleagues during business trips.
Logan also pled guilty to a separate charge of sexually assaulting someone who was sleeping.
He was given a two-year supervision order and placed on the sex offenders’ register.
Taylor appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Cour t last month and admit ted defrauding the Fringe Society, for whom she had worked since 1994.
She is facing a jail term when she returns to the court for sentencing later this month.
Taylor siphoned of f pension contributions from her employer – a charity responsible for ticketing and marketing of the Fringe – between 2008 and 2015.
The court was told she had since repaid all the money, which had been spent on horses and showjumping, and she has moved to Portugal.
Logan and Taylor have had their membership of ICAS – the Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland – terminated and can no longer use the term CA after their names. They cannot appeal.
The disciplinary judgments were made publicpu last week on ICAS’s website.
AnA ICAS spokeswoman said: “Both havehav been found guilty of professional misconduct.mi
“The severity of the sanctions not only reflectsrefl the seriousness of their actions butbu also the importance that ICAS place on upholding high ethical standards.”