A 61-year-old Edmonton man is accused of defrauding a city HSBC branch of $3 million over a period of five years. Economic Crimes Unit investigators say the man, a former employee of HSBC Bank Canada, used a range of methods to divert the money into accounts controlled by him and his 59-year-old life partner over a five-year period starting in 2004. The fraud was initially discovered through HSBC's internal controls, police said. The man is charged with fraud over $5,000, theft over $5,000, forgery, laundering the proceeds of crime and impersonation. A Canada-wide warrant was issued for his partner, a man who is known to frequent the Greater Vancouver area and the Philippines, his country of birth.

Source: CBC News November 21, 2016 16:18 UTC