Melbourne paralegal clerk Athena Razos has pleaded guilty in Victoria’s Country Court to 16 counts of misappropriating more than $1.5 million from clients of a Melbourne law firm, The Sydney Morning Herald has reported.
Court documents reveal that Razos repeatedly siphoned money from client trust accounts into her private bank accounts between 2013 and 2017, while working at the Melbourne firm.
According to the SMH, the 58-year-old has also allegedly used more than a dozen aliases over the past 30 years to defraud, embezzle and steal from some of Melbourne’s most prestigious law firms, along with major banks, a single mother of triplets and her first husband.
Razos was permanently disqualified from being a legal practitioner in 2020 at a hearing in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
She will be sentenced next year after facing a mention hearing in the County Court in February 2023 and a further plea hearing.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald.
