British bank PA guilty of £4.3m fraud

London personal assistant Joyti De-Laurey has been found guilty of fleecing her Goldman Sachs bosses of nearly £4

London personal assistant Joyti De-Laurey has been found guilty of fleecing her Goldman Sachs bosses of nearly £4.5 million sterling.

The jury at Southwark Crown Court in London convicted De-Laurey of four counts of using a false instrument and 16 counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception. The total of value of her fraud was £4,303,259.

The panel had been considering its verdicts since last Wednesday afternoon. De-Laurey (35), of London Road, North Cheam, Surrey, denied the charges.

The prosecution alleged that she forged her bosses' signatures on cheques and cash transfer authorities to raid their savings secretly and embark on a string of spending sprees.

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De-Laurey's husband, Anthony (50) - a former chauffeur - was convicted by the same jury of four counts of money laundering but cleared of four other related charges.

The defendant's mother, Dr Devi Schahhou, a 68-year-old GP. was convicted of four counts of money laundering and cleared of one count.

De-Laurey, who was convicted by a majority of 11-1 on each count, was guilty of fraud on a "massive scale" and went on what the prosecution described as "astonishing" spending sprees.