Detective Garda John Murphy said Ms Lynch was a chartered accountant and handled shipping invoices for the company and because she was a senior member of staff she was trusted and the oversight of her work may not have been as forensic as it might have been for a newer member of staff.
It was not until December 2023 when there was an internal audit that there was one transaction related to July 2023 where the supporting documentation was missing.
On further scrutiny it emerged that payment had been made to an AIB account which was not related to any of the three main shipping companies used by the company.
It was established that the AIB account belonged to Deborah Lynch.
At this stage it was established that there had been not one but 20 fraudulent transactions where the funds were sent to her account.
The total reached €144,000 in transfers of funds to her account between April 2019 and July 2023.
Twenty of the counts against her were for theft of sums ranging from around €3,000 to over €9,000 from Change Healthcare Ireland Solutions Ltd.
of Grange East, Buttevant, County Cork, on dates between April 2019 and July 2023.
The remaining 23 charges were for creating false documents to facilitate the....
