Accounts manager accused of £400,000 VAT fraud

An accounts manager helped her boss cheat the taxpayer out of more than £400,000 because she was ‘worried about losing her job’, a court heard. Susan Kerr, 56, allegedly filed false VAT returns for almost four years while working for company director Mashallah Ali at Eclipse Sat Ltd. The company – which provides language dubbing services – ended up underpaying £413,621.70. But she insisted to police that she was acting under Ali’s instructions when paying only ‘what the company could…