in one of the most amazing financial scandals ever, joyti de - laurey, a secretary in a banking company,stole $4.5m from her employers in order to buy herself designer clothes, expensive cars and jewellery. she copied her bosses' signatures, wrote cheques to herself and stole the money from their personal bank accounts. some people think she was a hero: a modern-day robin hood. others say she was just an ordinary criminal.