Ex-ATB loan officer charged with fraud

A former Red Deer bank employee is charged with fraud and money laundering in connection to a million-dollar fraud from ATB Financial.

Mounties began investigating the 38-year-old loan officer last August after a complaint from the bank that a female worker had forged a customer’s signature and obtained a loan in the customer’s name.

Members of the Red Deer RCMP fraud unit and ATB Corporate Investigations unit then traced a series of fraudulent transactions that included numerous loans obtained by using the personal information of clients and other people known to the suspect.

The employee was terminated from her position.

Sarah Miles Brouilette is charged with two counts of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, two counts of laundering the proceeds of crime and one charge each of theft over $5,000 and fraud over $5,000.

She is to appear in Red Deer court July 17.