Cambridge accountant is jailed for fraud after stealing more than £200,000 from her employer

An accountant who fraudulently transferred more than £200,000 to herself from her employer has been jailed.

Amina Musaji, 45, was a senior accountant for a software company in Cambridge for more than three years but in December 2020 the finance manager noticed a number of unauthorised payments had been made between September 2019 and November 2020.

Musaji had transferred large sums of money into three separate accounts on several occasions, totalling £226,470.

When challenged, Musaji claimed she could explain the transactions but after nearly three weeks she still had not provided further information or reasons behind them.

Following a police investigation, the accounts were discovered to belong to Musaji. 

Musaji, of Railway Close, Burwell, near Cambridge, pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position and was sentenced to two years in prison at Cambridge Crown Court on Tuesday.

Detective Constable Richard Rose, who investigated, said: “Musaji abused her position of trust and knew the payment transfers she was making were not authorised and the money was not hers to take.

“We take all incidents of fraud very seriously. The investigations can be long and arduous, but we work tirelessly and do all we can to bring perpetrators to justice.”