Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)
Udupi, Aug 14: On behalf of Milagres Church, Kallianpur near here, a complaint has been registered in Malpe police station by its priest, Fr Marcel Saldanha, against a former accountant of the church.
Joyson D’Souza from Bantwal, who had earlier worked as an accountant in the said church, is charged with defrauding the church. Reportedly, Joyson withdrew fixed deposits standing in the name of the church, by forging the signature of the priest. He was working as an accountant of the church from October 2007 to May 2008.
The former accountant allegedly got two fixed deposit receipts scanned, and kept these duplicate receipts in the church records. He used the original receipts and sealed letter heads of the church bearing forged signatures of the priest, to withdraw a sum of Rs 1,84,769 fraudulently. The money was withdrawn through Canara Bank, Kallianpur branch, it is alleged.