Former Salvation Army accountant Ming Wa has not yet been charged with a crime, but he is facing a court mandated order to turn over every stick and stitch of his personal property to the SA to help recoup a portion of the millions he apparently stole. At 25 years old Wa has quite a career ahead of him. What are the chances that this incident will not show up on his next resume?

Via the Globe and Mail:

Accountant at Centre of $2.3-Million Salvation Army Fraud

By GREG MCARTHUR
With a report from Celia Donnelly
January 31, 2006

The Salvation Army says it has been defrauded of more than $2.3-million and that it has traced the missing money to a 25-year-old accountant who used to work at its Canadian headquarters in Toronto. In court files obtained by The Globe and Mail, the charity states it was the victim of a phony-invoice scheme, paying millions to two non-existent companies. After launching an internal investigation late last month, the charity says it has linked the scheme to Ming Wa, an accountant who abruptly resigned a week before the fraud was uncovered.

The charity, whose Canadian branch receives about $130-million a year from donors and is known worldwide for feeding, clothing and housing the needy, is now suing Mr. Wa. In the past two weeks, Mr. Wa has consented to judicial orders that require him to hand over to the charity all of his possessions, which include two plasma-screen televisions, hundreds of thousands of dollars remaining in his bank accounts and his $450,000 house in Markham, north of Toronto...

More on the fraud and how Wa was caught in the full article, which appears here.

-- MDT