Dundee civil servant admits embezzling over £40,000

A Dundee civil servant has admitted embezzling more than £40,000.

David Allan, 37, of Balunie Drive, carried out an elaborate scheme between 2009 and 2011 while working as “a trusted staff member” in the Department for Work and Pensions.

He admitted that, between May 10 2009 and March 3 2011, at Jack Martin Way, while an employee with the DWP, he embezzled £42,008.83. Allan used the details of three customers to disguise payments into his own bank account.

The scam was only discovered when the family of a dead woman complained they had not received help from the department to pay for her funeral.

Fiscal depute Susan Ruta told the court Allan had worked in the civil service since July 2002 and was a trusted member of staff in a specialist department.

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