A Barclays manager and a personal banker have been jailed for a £1.4m fraud of elderly customers, in a crime linked to organised gangs.
Bank manager Karl Dean Edwards, 43, and personal banker Andrew Waters, 26, were paid by an organised crime team to siphon money from the bank accounts of wealthy customers, according to the Daily Mail. Police said the bankers used false identification documents and forged papers to set up accounts in the names of the victims' relatives. They would then move money from the victims' accounts into the false accounts before transferring the sums into an offshore bank account. Edwards, of Crookbarrow Road, Norton, Worcester, was manager at the Hagley Road branch of Barclays in Birmingha...
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