A COMPANY secretary of a Blackburn firm appeared in court charged with fraud offences.

Victoria Forshaw, 38, of Watson Street, Oswaldtwistle, is alleged to have obtained £26,000 from Vanguard Packaging over a two-year period.

She is charged with using a company cheque to pay her credit card bill of £13,833; making an automated payment into her bank account of £3,956; fraudulently making an arrangement to repay a £2,000 loan; using a company cheque to pay her solicitor’s fee of £643; and using the company credit card for her own ends in the total sum of £7,005.

She was directed to Preston Crown Court and remanded on bail for the preparation of committal papers.

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