A 27-YEAR-old Limassol woman was yesterday remanded in custody for five days suspecting of stealing around £16,000 from the shop where she worked.
Police suspect Andri Andreou of systematically lifting money from the till since February, but the alleged crime only emerged after a report made to the shop’s owner by a customer.
The man said he had recently visited the shop, which sells everything from leather jackets to toothpaste, and purchased several items, but suspected something fishy was going on when Andreou summed up his purchases on a calculator instead of the main cash machine.
The man, the court heard, phoned shareholder and shop director Yiannakis Orphanides and informed him of the incident.
Orphanides checked the cash in the till and found £175 more than had been entered in.
Andreou initially denied any involvement in the affair, but later allegedly admitted she had used the same method repeatedly in the past to lift £1,000 from the cash box.
The director then asked the woman to sign an agreement binding her to return the £1,000 in several payments.
But after the discovery of the fraud, the suspicious director audited his books and discovered that £15,800 had gone missing.
He reported the case to the police, who arrested Andreou.
She denied taking the money.
Police said they would investigate the woman’s bank accounts and any transactions she had with other people.
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