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A bank employee cleared accounts from customers (symbolic image)
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A former bank employee has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for emptying customers' savings accounts for years.
The accused let herself be carried away to clear the accounts of the elderly women in the truest sense of the word, said the presiding judge Karin Kuhlmann in the Hildesheim district court.
Money to renovate a house
A suspended sentence is no longer an option for 55 offenses over a very long period and a damage amount of 292,300 euros.
The 62-year-old bank clerk listened to the verdict sobbing.
The verdict is not yet legally binding.
The woman had previously confessed to the theft series in two bank branches in Lehrte near Hanover and justified it with financial problems due to the renovation of a house.
“It was the emergency back then.
And then it's like a spiral that you can't get out of, ”she said.
File number: 20 KLs 14 Js 41266/18
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