Not me but in an office I worked at.
The head of accounts (not the financial director but day to day stuff) asked for compassionate leave as the aunt who had brought her up after her parents died needed a hip replacement and she 'owed it to her' to look after her. She got three months off to do this as she was so convincing. Three months later she had not come back and we could not contact her on any of the numbers she had given. At this point someone started looking at the accounts a bit harder and it turned out that she had created quite a few fake companies, which strangely enough had payments which ended up at the same bank acount - hers. After the police had been called, we found out that she had not been at her aunt's house in Devon, but was serving time in prison for an identical offence of fraud that she'd carried out at her previous place of employment. About six months after she'd been replaced by a very well checked and referenced accountant, she had the nerve to put us down as referees for, yes, another job in accounts! I believe they politely declined.
( The Cat's Mother Not a People Person., Fri 9 Jun 2006, 13:38, Reply)