A Bank's Personal Financial Assistant yesterday pleaded guilty to 31 charges of embezzling over half-a-million dollars and forging deposit certificates to cheat 29 bank customers into investing in fixed deposit schemes.

Senisah Fuziah binti Mohammad Adi Zainal, 32, took $234, 304.62 from her employer's bank in Tutong on different occasions between May 26 and December 22, 2009 and $335,455 between January 4 and November 10, 2010.

The defendant also dealt directly with the 29 individuals who were interested in investing their money in various types of fixed deposit schemes offered by the bank.

DPP Suriana Radin informed the court that the defendant pocketed a total amount of $569,759.62 from the 29 people who approached her for the investments from May 2009 to November 2010 and cheated the customers by forging the bank's deposit certificate.

It was on November 12, 2010 that the defendant's scam was unearthed after a customer went to the bank's Sengkurong branch to make additional deposits, only to find out that no deposits had ever been made into her fixed deposit account.

An internal investigation led to the defendant's act being discovered and police investigations further revealed that the defendant had used all the money to purchase luxuries in the form of home gadgets, car repairs, bill payments, helping to fund family functions, lending money to family members, funding a food stall business, and even paying for holidays in and out of the country.

Intermediate Court Judge Pengiran Masni Pengiran Bahar fixed the case for November 26 to pass sentence.

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