A woman has been jailed after she abused her trusted position as an accountant to steal £360,000 from her employer. Lynnett Alptekin spent the ill gotten gains on a house, a car and trips to Turkey, a court has heard.
Over four years, Alptekin created false invoices and fake suppliers to transfer the cash into 10 of her personal bank accounts. The married, heavily-pregnant defendant’s fraud was only discovered when a new financial controller was employed and noticed bank discrepancies and an investigation began.
Once the full extent of the crime was revealed and the 40-year-old, of Osmaston Road, Derby, was arrested. She admitted to spending the money on luxury items and visits to Turkey to see her husband, DerbyshireLive reports.
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Company director Max Crampton told the court in a victim impact statement: “We are a family-run business started by my parents in 1997 and I took over the running of it in 2019. We thought it was successful, employing six people and due to the fraud carried out by Lynnett the company nearly closed and this would have meant the loss of those six jobs.
“I had to make one person redundant which was incredibly hard for me. I had to take out a personal loan against my family home for £150,000 which, if the business had folded, would have meant I’d have lost my family home. Our credit rating was destroyed and we struggled financially. The impact of the fraud will…
