>>>That must have been in the seventies. That's when I first read about it. And back then it wasn't him losing his nerve, but his girlfriend buying a Ferrari or some such act that tipped him off.
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>>When you say "tipped him off" what do you mean - "gave him the heads up"? He already knew what he was doing. I don't know if this was the same case, but it is a bit vague after a few decades, as I remember that he lost his nerve - tat's all.
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>I mean he was caught in that version of the story, and the luxury car was what got their attention.

No, my story is where he wasn't discovered, but just lost his bottle and fessed up. As I said, he couldn't live with the enormity of what he'd started. He maybe thought he coud make a fast buck on this but it snowballed out of control, and there was no way of stopping it.

Maybe yours is another case. The same article mentioned that there were many such cases, in financial institutions, but they never made a fuss when they found out, and prosecuted the perp., merely "let them go", as they didn't want the world to know just how vulnerable they were.