The ruse ended when a regular audit brought to light a couple of suspicious payments. The 31-year-old Tauseef Sadeeq couldnt come up with plausible explanations when questioned, leading to a deeper investigation, ending with Sadeeq being sentenced to prison time.
Sadeeq Wont Be Practicing Law Anymore
He was the first-ever trainee at the law firm, and his ruse was going on for slightly over a year before he got caught. He was embezzling money from client compensations on 20 separate occasions by providing his own bank account to insurance companies, instead of the law firms account. His deception was uncovered in 2021 when the firm let him go and pressed charges.
The fraudulent transactions took place between February 1, 2020, and March 5…
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