A bank manager has allegedly gone on the run and abandoned her two children after using bogus credit cards to buy £100,000 worth of jewellery.
Mother-of-two Oxana Abakumova, 32, is accused of giving bogus credit cards to three elderly male customers of the bank she ran in the town of Beloretsk in the Russian region of Bashkiria in the Ural Mountains.
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When the scam caught up with her she abandoned her children, aged two and seven, and went on the run, it has been reported in the Russian press.
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As soon the interviews were over, it is claimed that Abakumova took her children to their grandparents and fled.
Police say she has not been seen since and could face 10 years behind bars for fraud.