'I'm going to jail' | Fraudster stole £550k from employer by inventing fake workers & pocketing the wages

A manager has admitted siphoning more than half a million pounds from the business by creating “ghost” agency workers and routing their pay into a bank account she controlled.

Viktorija Lukjanova, 36, a senior manager at East Lothian Produce, pleaded guilty to fraud after the court heard she was able to submit and approve the paperwork used to pay temporary labour, before diverting wages linked to bogus names into her own account.