Her defense attorney Thursday told the court the glamorous life of the disgraced banker in Australia has been ‘destroyed’ by the slew of fraud charges

Sara Daizli, 32, on trial, accused of having opened accounts in fictitious names, faces 120 fraud charge in New South Wales, Australia

Charges include dealing with the proceeds of a crime and 108 counts of dishonestly gaining a financial advantage by deception

Police allege Sara Daizli opened accounts in fictitious names and swindled hundreds of thousands of dollars between February 2016 and December 2018

She allegedly siphoned money into her bank account under a false name and used the ill-gotten gains to fund a lavish lifestyle

Sarah Daizli, [photo], is out on bail under strict conditions, including $1,050,000 bond

Defense attorney told court the life of her client Sara Daizli, seen, [photo], leaving court on Thursday, has been ‘destroyed’ by ‘completely false’ allegations she defrauded multiple banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars

The life of a former bank employee has been ‘destroyed’ by ‘completely false’ allegations that she defrauded multiple banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, a court in New South Wales, Australia, has heard.
Sara Daizli, a 32-year-old customer service specialist allegedly, opened accounts in fictitious names in order to swindle hundreds of thousands of dollars from St George Bank customers between February 2016 and December 2018.
Prosecutors allege she siphoned money into the fake accounts and used the ill-gotten gains to fund a lavish lifestyle. The exact amount involved in the swindle is not public.

Daizli is also accused of making fraudulent loan applications to St George and ANZ banks.
She has pled not guilty to a slew of fraud accusations – 120 charges – including dealing with the proceeds of a crime and 108 counts of dishonestly gaining a financial advantage by deception.
On Thursday, Daizli’s lawyer Abigail Bannister told the court that her client’s life ‘has been destroyed over the past four years’ due to the ‘completely false’ allegations of fraud.
Daizli is due to face a trial in the New South Wales District Court next month but she fronted court this week for an argument about subpoenas issued to Westpac Bank.
The court was told Westpac, which is now the parent company of Daizli’s former employer St George Bank, has spent countless hours and tens of thousands of dollars tracking down documents sought by the defense.
The bank’s lawyer Andrew Byrne asked the court to set aside portions of the subpoenas that he argued were oppressive and constituted an illegitimate application of the legal process.
He said the bank has been ‘bending over backwards’ to provide the requested documents, but emphasized the time and cost involved in searching through the ‘hundreds of millions of pieces of evidence’.

Prosecutors allege that Sara Daizli [photo], leveraged her role at St George bank to open accounts in fictitious names to facilitate the swindle lasting between February 2016 and December 2018. The exact amount swindled has not been released

One of the records – in contention – sought by Daizli’s lawyer, is a record of the staff login details for 19 days when her client is accused of conducting fraudulent transfers.
Bannister said it was a ‘very critical document’ because prosecutors allege Daizli scavenged login details of several colleagues, then used credentials to appropriate funds on 19 occasions.
She told the court the bank’s policy dictated that employees could be immediately dismissed for sharing login details and they weren’t even allowed to write them down.
Daizli would have had to obtain her colleague’s sensitive login details and then monitor the employee from a different room to ensure they weren’t logged in when she made the fraudulent transactions, Bannister told the court.
Bannister offered an alternative theory – it was possible the St George staffers had innocently executed the transfers themselves after someone came into the bank and misrepresented themselves.

Bank customer service specialist Sara Daizli [photo], allegedly opened accounts in fictitious names in order to swindle hundreds of thousands of dollars from St George Bank customers to finance her glamorous life style 

This scenario Bannister said, ‘leaves the door open’ for the possibility that Daizli was also an innocent victim of an unknown fraudster who conned her into opening fake accounts.
‘For us to see the logins is absolutely crucial,’ she told the court.
The prosecution countered defense request for specific records, arguing that it would take an ‘extraordinary amount of time’ to conduct the necessary searches of Westpac’s extensive records because those are not ‘a straightforward process’.
Judge Nanette Williams ordered Westpac Bank to ‘take all reasonable steps’ to produce the login records.
However she set aside a request for a chronological log of the transactions conducted by the bank staffers on the same days, dismissing it as ‘way too wide’.
Bannister also requested a record of the high flying staffers at St George Bank during Daizli’s three year tenure as a customer service specialist.
Judge Williams ordered Westpac to produce the documents by August 19, waving off defense argument that eight weeks had elapsed since Westpac first indicated it would take 10 days to produce the documents.
‘I don’t care, Ms Bannister. I care about getting the material … to you as soon as possible,’ the judge said.

Sarah Daizli, [photo], is out on bail under strict conditions, including $1,050,000 bond and the personal forfeiture of $550,000

Other defense requests, such as for copies investigator’s interviews with staff members in relation to the fraud, deemed fishing expeditions by Judge Williams, were dismissed as too broad.
The case was adjourned to August 19, when Westpac is expected to report progress with producing the approved documents. ‘This trial is not going to be derailed by the subpoena matters,’ the judge declared.
‘It’s going to go ahead in September.’
Daizli was granted bail under strict conditions, with bond set at $1,050,000.
The defendant also faces a separate civil suit filed by Westpac Bank in relation to the alleged fraud.
Daizli remains constrained by stringent bail conditions, including a prohibition on working in finance.
She personally agreed to forfeit $550,000 if she fails to appear in court, while two people known to her offered the $1,050,000 surety to guarantee she turns up.
The actual trial in the NSW District Court scheduled for September.