A finance worker stole £75,000 from dead customers in order to fund a “lavish” luxury lifestyle, a court has ruled. Corey Casagrande, 37, defrauded deceased Credit Suisse account holders out of the five-figure sum – with the money propping up expensive foreign travel and designer shoes. Casagrande, from Duffryn in Newport, was a team leader at Target Financial Services, which dealt with clients including Barclays, the BBC and Credit Suisse – and enjoyed a “sophisticated” understanding of his firm’s internal systems. Via that understanding, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court was told, Casagrande used f…
