Lloyds ex-security chief charged with £2.5 mn fraud

A former security chief of Britain's Lloyds Banking Group was charged on Friday with a £2.5 million ($3.9 million, 3.1 million euro) fraud. "We have authorised the Metropolitan Police Service to charge Jessica Harper, the former head of fraud and security for digital banking at Lloyds Banking Group, with one count of fraud by abuse of position," said Andrew Penhale of the Crown Prosection Service. Harper is accused of submitting false invoices between September 2008 and December 2011 to claim payments totalling £2,463,750, the CPS said in a statement. She will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court in London on May 31, prosecutors added.