Bursar’s suspicions unmask Total’s crooked finance head

Saturday 22nd January 2011, 2:29PM GMT.

SIX-FIGURE swindler Paul Curson came unstuck when he paid school fees for his daughter’s partner with a company cheque.

Suspicious, the Ladies’ College bursar contacted the firm.

An in-house investigation at Total CI, where Curson worked, uncovered a four-month spree that had seen him forge company cheques to the value of £174,576 and overpay himself by an additional £20,000.

Appearing in the Royal Court, he admitted seven fraud offences, one count of false accounting and two of money laundering, by converting the proceeds of his crime into cars.

He was sentenced to three years concurrent for each offence.

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Ray

January 22, 2011 at 3:48 pm

Another money laundering case!

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Ray

January 23, 2011 at 9:38 am

If a charge of money laundering can be brought against Curson for converting the proceeds of his cheque frauds into cars the Police could fill their boots with such add on charges to every spotty faced oik who steals from a hedge veg stall and converts the cash into sweets / trainers / nose rings or whatever

Guernsey could race to the top of the money laundering prosecutions charts thus proving that Arnald has been right all along

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Alice

January 23, 2011 at 8:08 pm

Good he’s finally being put away, should be for longer. Dont know how he could even do that to his family.

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