Emma Hunt conned a large Edinburgh property firm out of a fortune by pilfering rent payments made by tenants
A crooked office manager stole over £900,000 from her bosses to fund an extravagant luxury lifestyle – including a £40,000 Halloween party in a castle.
Friends and family were treated to extravagant VIP days out at Six Nations rugby matches, Musselburgh Racecourse, and the Scottish Open golf championship. Hunt took her mum to a five-star all-inclusive resort in the Caribbean and enjoyed a weekend trip to Dublin where she shelled out £6590. A source said: “Hunt is a fantasist but she is also very clever. The way she was able to keep this fraud from being discovered for such a long time shows she knew what she was doing.”
Hunt later snapped up hospitality for Ladies Day at the same racecourse for 20 people in both 2017 and 2018, paying £6360 and £6600 respectively. In 2018 she bankrolled hospitality packages for 12 pals at the Scottish Open at £300 per person. In 2016 Hunt paid £19,500 for a new Audi S1 Quattro which she traded in for a BMW M2. Hunt had to pay a further £35,000 for the BMW on top of trading in the Audi. The scam artist also spent £6730.05 at the Louis Vuitton fashion house. She also sent £91,596 in 45 separate transactions to her brother’s farming contracting business.
Hunt came up with a further means to obtain funds, which involved her arranging new payments for old invoices which were already settled. She would then contact the firm which received the cash, claim it was a mistake, and have the sums repaid into her own account.
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