3 Held in Mexico on Embezzlement Charge
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican police have arrested a bank teller and two former officials charged with attempting to embezzle at least $3 million, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
The two former bank officials are also being held in connection with a $6-million fraud at the same bank that investigators had uncovered earlier this year, the statement said.
It said that Dora Elia Morales Garcia, head teller at a Banco de Atlantico branch in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, transferred almost $3 million, or 10 billion pesos, to accounts of her two co-defendants after the money had been deposited by local investors.
The three were caught while trying to flee to the United States, the statement said.
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