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Defense claims the glamorous life of Australian banker, Sara Daizli, has been ‘destroyed’ by mountain of ‘completely false’ allegations – the disgraced ex-banker faces 120 fraud charges

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-62b2dcb7187f72fd323e3cd82560f244 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;180101&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Her defense attorney Thursday told the court the glamorous life of the disgraced banker in Australia has been &&num;8216&semi;destroyed&&num;8217&semi; by the slew of fraud charges <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8ef8d1ee98edef471d8df852947049c3 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;180101&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Sara Daizli&comma; 32&comma; on trial&comma; accused of having opened accounts in fictitious names&comma; faces 120 fraud charge in New South Wales&comma; Australia<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c1d79eb4a59e727784cfa2257743ed8f wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;180101&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Charges include dealing with the proceeds of a crime and 108 counts of dishonestly gaining a financial advantage by deception <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c8a9fa03fe6e899f144b7b8ac0177a4f wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;180101&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Police allege Sara Daizli opened accounts in fictitious names and swindled hundreds of thousands of dollars between February 2016 and December 2018 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6de790cdfe0db0e4ffef412fee02bfc2 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;180101&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>She allegedly siphoned money into her bank account under a false name and used the ill-gotten gains to fund a lavish lifestyle <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1d4ad13dc4440c0e0bb9cb7cb2551389 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;180101&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Sarah Daizli&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; is out on bail under strict conditions&comma; including &dollar;1&comma;050&comma;000 bond<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Sara-Daizli-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466264" style&equals;"width&colon;837px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Defense attorney told court the life of her client Sara Daizli&comma; seen&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; leaving court on Thursday&comma; has been &&num;8216&semi;destroyed&&num;8217&semi; by &&num;8216&semi;completely false&&num;8217&semi; allegations she defrauded multiple banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The life of a former bank employee has been &&num;8216&semi;destroyed&&num;8217&semi; by &&num;8216&semi;completely false&&num;8217&semi; allegations that she defrauded multiple banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars&comma; a court in New South Wales&comma; Australia&comma; has heard&period;<br>Sara Daizli&comma; a 32-year-old customer service specialist allegedly&comma; 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&period;<br>Prosecutors allege she siphoned money into the fake accounts and used the ill-gotten gains to fund a lavish lifestyle&period; The exact amount involved in the swindle is not public&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"alignleft size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Sara-Daizli-5&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466270"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Daizli is also accused of making fraudulent loan applications to St George and ANZ banks&period;<br>She has pled not guilty to a slew of fraud accusations &&num;8211&semi; 120 charges &&num;8211&semi; including dealing with the proceeds of a crime and 108 counts of dishonestly gaining a financial advantage by deception&period;<br>On Thursday&comma; Daizli&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer Abigail Bannister told the court that her client&&num;8217&semi;s life &&num;8216&semi;has been destroyed over the past four years&&num;8217&semi; due to the &&num;8216&semi;completely false&&num;8217&semi; allegations of fraud&period;<br>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&period;<br>The court was told Westpac&comma; which is now the parent company of Daizli&&num;8217&semi;s former employer St George Bank&comma; has spent countless hours and tens of thousands of dollars tracking down documents sought by the defense&period;<br>The bank&&num;8217&semi;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&period;<br>He said the bank has been &&num;8216&semi;bending over backwards&&num;8217&semi; to provide the requested documents&comma; but emphasized the time and cost involved in searching through the &&num;8216&semi;hundreds of millions of pieces of evidence&&num;8217&semi;&period;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailymail&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;article-13591251&sol;Sara-Daizli-Westpac-bank-fraud-court&period;html"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Sara-Daizli-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466265" style&equals;"width&colon;830px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Prosecutors allege that Sara Daizli &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; leveraged her role at St George bank to open accounts in fictitious names to facilitate the swindle lasting between February 2016 and December 2018&period; The exact amount swindled has not been released <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">One of the records &&num;8211&semi; in contention &&num;8211&semi; sought by Daizli&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer&comma; is a record of the staff login details for 19 days when her client is accused of conducting fraudulent transfers&period;<br>Bannister said it was a &&num;8216&semi;very critical document&&num;8217&semi; because prosecutors allege Daizli scavenged login details of several colleagues&comma; then used credentials to appropriate funds on 19 occasions&period;<br>She told the court the bank&&num;8217&semi;s policy dictated that employees could be immediately dismissed for sharing login details and they weren&&num;8217&semi;t even allowed to write them down&period;<br>Daizli would have had to obtain her colleague&&num;8217&semi;s sensitive login details and then monitor the employee from a different room to ensure they weren&&num;8217&semi;t logged in when she made the fraudulent transactions&comma; Bannister told the court&period;<br>Bannister offered an alternative theory &&num;8211&semi; it was possible the St George staffers had innocently executed the transfers themselves after someone came into the bank and misrepresented themselves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Sara-Daizli-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466266" style&equals;"width&colon;837px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Bank customer service specialist Sara Daizli &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; 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 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">This scenario Bannister said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;leaves the door open&&num;8217&semi; for the possibility that Daizli was also an innocent victim of an unknown fraudster who conned her into opening fake accounts&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;For us to see the logins is absolutely crucial&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she told the court&period;<br>The prosecution countered defense request for specific records&comma; arguing that it would take an &&num;8216&semi;extraordinary amount of time&&num;8217&semi; to conduct the necessary searches of Westpac&&num;8217&semi;s extensive records because those are not &&num;8216&semi;a straightforward process&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>Judge Nanette Williams ordered Westpac Bank to &&num;8216&semi;take all reasonable steps&&num;8217&semi; to produce the login records&period;<br>However she set aside a request for a chronological log of the transactions conducted by the bank staffers on the same days&comma; dismissing it as &&num;8216&semi;way too wide&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>Bannister also requested a record of the high flying staffers at St George Bank during Daizli&&num;8217&semi;s three year tenure as a customer service specialist&period;<br>Judge Williams ordered Westpac to produce the documents by August 19&comma; waving off defense argument that eight weeks had elapsed since Westpac first indicated it would take 10 days to produce the documents&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t care&comma; Ms Bannister&period; I care about getting the material &&num;8230&semi; to you as soon as possible&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the judge said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Sara-Daizli-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466268" style&equals;"width&colon;842px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Sarah Daizli&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; is out on bail under strict conditions&comma; including &dollar;1&comma;050&comma;000 bond and the personal forfeiture of &dollar;550&comma;000<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Other defense requests&comma; such as for copies investigator&&num;8217&semi;s interviews with staff members in relation to the fraud&comma; deemed fishing expeditions by Judge Williams&comma; were dismissed as too broad&period;<br>The case was adjourned to August 19&comma; when Westpac is expected to report progress with producing the approved documents&period; &&num;8216&semi;This trial is not going to be derailed by the subpoena matters&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the judge declared&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s going to go ahead in September&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Daizli was granted bail under strict conditions&comma; with bond set at &dollar;1&comma;050&comma;000&period; <br>The defendant also faces a separate civil suit filed by Westpac Bank in relation to the alleged fraud&period; <br>Daizli remains constrained by stringent bail conditions&comma; including a prohibition on working in finance&period;<br>She personally agreed to forfeit &dollar;550&comma;000 if she fails to appear in court&comma; while two people known to her offered the &dollar;1&comma;050&comma;000 surety to guarantee she turns up&period;<br>The actual trial in the NSW District Court scheduled for September&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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