Detectives from Mudgee Local Area Command have charged a bookkeeper with fraudulently obtaining about $147,000 from a client.
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Police launched an investigation in July 2014, after a Gulgong-based company reported suspicious activity relating to its bank accounts.
As a result of their inquiries, police on Friday executed a search warrant at the bookkeeper’s business premises, which is also located in Gulgong.
Officers seized computers and records relevant to the investigation.
A 48-year-old woman was arrested at the premises and taken to Mudgee Police Station, where she was charged with obtain benefit by deception and conceal accounting record with intent to obtain financial advantage.
The woman was conditionally bailed to appear in Mudgee Local Court on May 20.
In court, police will allege the woman fraudulently transferred about $147,000 from her client’s bank accounts into her own throughout 2014.
