Fraud

[dollydoo]

about 4 years ago I was accused of taking money from a friend by my employers (the bank). The friend never made a complaint and the police nor the bank never interviewed her - the money was in fact a gift. I was interviewed by police and no charges brought - though they decided to just "bury" the case and not finish it. the money in the bank is frozen & the bank won't allow me to have it. my solicitor says if I don't need the money i should just leave it for now but i don't see why the bank should keep the money just because they assumed I'd stolen it. Do the police need to officially sign off because as far as my solicitor is aware, they couldn't be bothered with the paper work! the other problem is, if I push it, they could sue me for tax evasion as I put the money in an account with my name but with a ficticious child as the beneficiary so as not to pay tax. Anyone got any advice?

[Ethel]

Thanks for the vote of confidence, In A Pickle.

I had seen this post earlier but I am quite frankly unable to answer. There is a lot more to this than meets the eye.

Dollydoo - you have a solicitor. She or he should be fully aware of the facts and is the best person to advise you.

[ojread2]

I read this as well, and thought so, dollydoo is lying to both the bank and the police, and most likely her solicitor and she wants her money back? Yeah, right. If you can 'make up' a child what else can you lie about? For one, whether the money was a gift or not !

Something smells nasty, that's for sure

ojx

[cambus]

The ficticious child will be able to withdraw the money, when he/she reaches the age of sixteen.
How old is the child now?

[dollydoo]

Actually OJ I haven't lied about anything other than the "childs" name, which incidentally was approved by my branch manager who knew I didn't have kids! if you have any idea about how accounts work, an under 7 childs account is in fact in the parents/guardians name anyway and if I had anything whatosever to hide, I wouldn't have opened the account with the company I was working for! I could quite easily have paid the money into my outside account. I asked for objective opinions - not vicious ones so if you don't have anything constructive to say then keep your tongue between your teeth! Thanks to those of you who made fair points. By the way, both the police and the bank know that the childs name is not real.

[ojread2]

Let me get this right? you make up a child because you don;t have one and your bank allows to to open an account for that child even thought they know you don't any children?

With all the security measures you have to produce to open both an adult and a 'child's' account (I actually has an under 7 for whom I have opened a savings account for which I needed to provide a birth cert for so know exactly who they work TVM) I cannot believe you are telling the truth.

Something is afoot - you opened up a fictitious account to avoid paying tax? The IR might be interested too