Fraud or just forgery
<p>Gaming machine clearances at a licenced club require two employees to be present to count the monies from the machines. One employee only has done the clearance by himself ( employee A) then signed the official clearance document in his name and then falsely co-signed another persons signature (employee B) as if the other employee (B) was present at the clearance when he was not.<br>
When questioned, employee (A) declared in writing that the second signature was indeed that of employee (B). Employee (B) has signed a stat. dec. that the second signature is not his.
Thus (A) has forged (B's) signature. Is this deliberate deceit fraud?</p>

<p>Not a lawyer, but I expect that there are multiple count;</p>

<ul>
<li><p>forgery of signature</p></li>
<li><p>violation of license (which i expect could be revoked for causes)</p></li>
</ul>

<p>The club owner may also be negligent of not having sufficient procedures in place, so as a double key lockers, security cams, etc, so that they don't have to rely on people honesty and signatures alone.  Conflicting statements between person A and person B may come down to a examination of a signature expert.</p>

<p>Unless monies are missing, there may not be any fraud other than the signatory issues, but falsifying a signature does not automatically mean that the person have stolen anything.</p>

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