This year, Regina Police Service say about $10 million has been lost to financial crimes, including fraud, counterfeit and identity theft incidents — up 78 per cent from the same period from the previous year.

Currently, investigators are managing more than 100 active fraud investigations, police said in a statement issued on Nov. 6.

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On July 7, police received a report of an internal fraud incident involving a female employee at a local business who had withdrawn significant amounts of money from company accounts, and misappropriated a total of $248,000. On Oct. 16, a 36 year

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