Employee admits defrauding charity

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 3 August 2007

A former Scottish charity worker said it had been easy to embezzle £12,500 over an 18-month period from the Scottish Society for Autism.

Kenneth Fulton, who worked as an area administrator at the charity’s offices in Roslin, near Edinburgh, admitted stealing the money between November 2003 and April 2005 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday. According to The Scotsman newspaper, Fulton, who was one of the signatories for the branch’s bank accounts, told...

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