A former chief administrative officer stole more than half a million dollars from a western Manitoba municipality’s bank account, and then tried to cover it up by fabricating a story about a cyberattack and altering documents, a lawsuit filed last month alleges.
The lawsuit, filed by the Municipality of Gilbert Plains at Winnipeg’s Court of King’s Bench on July 25, accuses then CAO Amber Fisher of breaching her contract through “criminal, fraudulent, and unlawful conduct.”
It alleges that between September 2020 and July 2021, she made 33 transfers, totalling about $515,000, from the municipality’s bank account to her own.
The municipality also accuses Fisher of falsifying bank
