This Is Guernsey

MONEY-LAUNDERER Emma Le Sauvage is to be sued by her former employer, The Royal Bank of Scotland International. The 27-year-old was sent to prison for 27 months by the Royal Court in October for stealing £277,335 from the bank between February 2003 and October 2006.

Crown Advocate Graham McKerrell told the court that the Crown accepted Le Sauvage’s claim that she had £34,156 of realisable property and requested that the court did not make a confiscation order because RBSI was pursuing a civil case against her.

‘We would ask the court to accept that she has benefited and that she has realisable property to the said amount, but we would not invite the court to make a confiscation order at this time,’ said Advocate McKerrell.

‘It will then be left to the civil proceedings.’

Deputy Bailiff Richard Collas said the court accepted his points.

Le Sauvage stole some of the money from an account that her husband’s parents had with the bank and had provided them with false information on bank-headed paper.

She performed 134 dishonest acts in total.