Former Shepparton bank teller back in police custody

The court was told Mr Kuol failed to answer bail on August 11 last year.

On June 13 this year, police appealed for help to locate him as he was wanted on warrant.

In one of his most recent court appearances during an application by police to revoke his bail in June last year, the court was told Mr Kuol was working as a bank teller at the National Australia Bank in Kyabram and Shepparton when he transferred $121,273.42 from customers’ accounts into his own and two associates’ accounts.

Mr Kuol transferred more than $24,400 into one associate’s account, while the other received $5000, the court was told.

The majority of the customers affected were elderly and included a 95-year-old, a 76-year-old and an 84-year-old.

He was on bail at the time on charges including several of dishonestly obtaining money by deception, several of committing an indictable offence while on bail and making false documents.

The court was told that in separate matters Mr Kuol was on bail for, he allegedly engaged with an undercover police officer online to sell 13 grams of cocaine to the officer for $2650 in March 2021.

Police also allege that in November 2020 Mr Kuol used 13 counterfeit notes to buy a PlayStation 5 off a Melbourne man who advertised online.

On that occasion in court, police applied to revoke his bail as he had breached his bail conditions eight times, but the application was refused by the magistrate and he was bailed.

Among the charges he faces are two counts of driving while suspended, giving a false name to police, trafficking cocaine, committing an indictable offence while on bail, contravening a bail condition, possessing cocaine, possessing cannabis, and two counts of failing to comply with a police direction to give access to a data storage device.

On June 29, the magistrate in Melbourne remanded Mr Kuol in custody and adjourned his matters back to Shepparton Magistrates’ Court in August.