A former head of online security at Lloyds Banking Group has been jailed for five years after defrauding the company of almost £2.5 million.
A former head of online security at Lloyds Banking Group has been jailed for five years after defrauding the company of almost £2.5 million.
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Jessica Harper, 50, whose £60,000-a-year role included fighting fraud, submitted 93 false and doctored invoices to pay herself £2,463,750, which she then gave to friends and her three brothers to buy property.
The fraud took place during the financial crisis when Lloyds received taxpayers' money. She stole the money over four years by creating a dummy bank account in the name of an IT firm which carried out work for Lloyds, Southwark Crown Court heard
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