The accountant of a Chisinau firm is accused of embezzling almost 1 million lei (over 983,000 lei) from the company by falsifying payment orders in the names of other employees of the firm, IPN reports.

In a communiqué, the Prosecutor General’s Office says the illegality was identified during an audit. The accountant confessed that she appropriated the money. She gave back a part of the money, saying she needed financial resources in order to save her own business.

The prosecutors sent the case to court. The woman faces up to 15 years in jail.