An employee at a Miami dialysis center is facing multiple charges after police say he was defrauded of more than $122,000 in fraudulent transactions.
Paola Alexandra Orozco, 45, was arrested Tuesday on charges including grand larceny, organized fraud and 27 counts of making false entries in the books of a corporation, according to Miami-Dade jail records.
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According to the arrest report, Orozco was hired on Aug. 24, 2023, as a financial manager at Kidney Spa, located at 1401 Southwest 1st Ave., but less than two months later, he had already stolen from the store. It is said that he had started.
Her duties include preparing financial reports, overseeing accounting operations, analyzing financial data, and managing financial transactions.
According to the report, the center receives invoices of varying amounts from vendors, which are then approved by Kidney Spa’s CFO.
On Monday, Orozco generated an invoice for $6,583.88 from a vendor, but the CFO became concerned because it was not generated by an employee who frequently generates it, the report said.
The CFO began investigating invoices created by Orozco using vendor information and discovered several invoices that were sent to Orozco’s personal bank account, according to the report.
According to the report, the CFO discovered that more than 20 invoices dating back to October had been sent to the bank account, totaling Kidney Spa’s losses totaling $122,288.81.
Orozco was arrested and taken to jail. She appeared before a judge Wednesday, where she was granted bail of $15,000 and she was appointed a public defender.
