Daily Casefile · Verdict
The Missing Gallery Funds
≈ 4 min
Over six months, roughly £18,000 vanished from the Calloway Gallery's operating account in a series of small transfers. The gallery's owner, Duncan Calloway, noticed the shortfall during an annual audit and reported it to police. Suspicion fell on Harriet Voss, the bookkeeper who held sole access to the accounting software and the transfer approval codes. Harriet insists the transfers were authorised maintenance invoices she processed in good faith. The jury must decide: did Harriet Voss deliberately embezzle gallery funds, or was she the unwitting processor of someone else's fraud?
Subject
Harriet Voss, gallery bookkeeper
Charged with Embezzlement of gallery funds
The scene
A mid-sized art gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, present day.
The witnesses
- Duncan Calloway — Gallery owner and complainant
- Priya Chen — Freelance IT security consultant hired by police
- Alistair Drummond — Gallery maintenance contractor
- Nadia Osei — Bank fraud investigator, Royal Caledonian Bank
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