Secretary guilty of £4.3m fraud

A TOP City secretary in London was facing jail yesterday after being convicted of "plundering" more than £4 million from her bosses' bank accounts.

Joyti De-Laurey, an "unsurpassed liar" driven by "greed and jealousy", used the cash to mimic the lifestyle of her superiors, buying luxury cars, designer clothes and numerous homes.

The 35-year-old, whose husband and mother helped to launder her ill-gotten gains, carried out her carefully calculated "betrayal" behind a smokescreen of her own efficiency and the extensive sympathy "milked" from her imaginary cancer.