With a Louis Vuitton bag slung over her arm, and wearing Chanel shoes, a woman has appeared in court accused of funnelling $1.3 million from Macquarie Bank accounts to her own.
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Danika Louise Lena, 26, from Drummoyne, appeared in Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday, charged with 21 counts of using a false document to obtain financial advantage.
Court documents allege Ms Lena began by using a fake Macquarie Bank withdrawal form to transfer $5000 from an account linked to an apartment building to her own Commonwealth Bank account in September 2013.
Over the course of the next 18 months, she allegedly used a similar form to withdraw money from different Macquarie Bank accounts 20 times, including amounts of $82,500 in April 2014, $100,197 in July 2014, and $116,000 in April 2015.
Ms Lena is accused of wrongfully transferring a total of $1,304,324.67.
She allegedly used names of account holders to complete the transfers, including Wei Li, Ping Wang, and A Hearne.
Police from the fraud squad investigated the alleged transfers after a tip-off in June 2016, and arrested Ms Lena at a city police station in February.
After her matter was briefly mentioned, she left the courts building through a back door and went into a car park with several supporters.
One man confronted the media and took photos of journalists.
Ms Lena - who has deleted her social media accounts - cowered in the back seat of a white four-wheel-drive as she was driven away.
Her matter was adjourned until next month.