Woman sentenced for stealing 200,000 kroner from friend’s account

She has to pay the money back

A 57-year-old woman has been given an eight-month suspended sentence for stealing 204,000 kroner from her friend’s bank account, reports EkstraBladet.

Her friend, an elderly man from Vojens in southern Jutland, did not notice the accused kept taking his credit card and in less than a month managed to wipe his account clean.

According to the JydskeVestkyst court, the woman was not able to explain what she had spent the money on.

She now has to pay all the money back.





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