Hotel chain staff accused of £24k booking fraud

Fraudsters conned a multinational hotel chain out of more than £24,000 by falsely claiming commission on room bookings, a court heard. The crooks, led by two insiders at the Intercontinental Hotels Group, funnelled the cash through a bogus travel firm with an account at the Islamic Bank of Britain. Reservation agent Youssef Daif, 33, used his colleagues’ logon details to alter computer records for hundreds of room bookings across the country. As a result IGH, which includes the InterContinental, Crowne…