Two arraigned in $137,000 Chelsea credit union embezzlement scheme

BOSTON, July 20, 2022— Two former employees of Metro Credit Union in Chelsea were charged today with embezzling $137,000 from the institution, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced. 

MORELIA JUMA, 25, of Lynn and ERNA SEJDINOVIC, 26, of Malden were each charged in Chelsea District Court with larceny over $1,200 and embezzlement from a bank.  Both women were ordered held in lieu of $1,000 bail and will return to court on August 29.  

Assistant District Attorney Kate L. Fraiman said bank officials discovered in February that Sejdinovic, a current employee at the time of the scheme, had been funding the account held by Juma, a former employee, with fraudulent rebates from the credit union’s general ledger.  Sejdinovic also increased the cash limit on Juma’s debit card to allow large ATM withdrawals.  The withdrawals occurred almost daily during the six-month span, with increasing amounts and frequency, Fraiman said.  

“These are not the first people to come up with a scheme they thought would slip past watchful eyes, and they’re not the first people to find out how terribly wrong they were,” Hayden said.

James Borghesani, Chief of Communications