Ex-Ulster bank staff charged over £750,000 theft

Two former bank employees have been charged in connection with the theft of £750,000 from a Belfast branch of Ulster Bank.

Two former bank employees have been charged in connection with the theft of £750,000 from a Belfast branch of Ulster Bank.

Economic Crime Bureau detectives who also investigated a money-laundering operation have taken steps to freeze a significant amount of cash in a number of accounts, according to a spokeswoman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The two men, both aged 40, are to appear before magistrates tomorrow.

The money was allegedly stolen between November last year and February 21st this year from the bank's Waring Street branch in Belfast where the two men worked.

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More than £250,000 has already been recovered.

A third man has also been questioned.

PA