Catering assistant turned money mule dodges jail time

A greedy catering assistant who was paid £500 to act as a money mule for a telephone fraudster who scammed a technology firm out of £190,000 has been spared jail. Christian Aranda, 23, allowed the unidentified crook to filter some of the proceeds of the con committed against family-run Micro-Epsilon UK through his bank account. The company’s account manager received a call from the hustler who posed as a Lloyd’s Bank employee on 2 February 2017. She was duped into…