An Edmonton couple is facing a number of fraud charges after a local machinery equipment company reported fraud.

The EPS Economic Crimes Section investigated reports from the Edmonton-based machinery equipment company – and determined a former employee had allegedly redirected marketing and advertising funds to personal accounts.

It’s alleged the former employee used a variety of methods, between 2000 and 2006, to commit more than $500,000 in fraud.

Methods included false billings to company credit cards, creating fake identities to facilitate fraudulent payments, fake billings for non-commissionable sales, fraudulent payments to personal online payment accounts for purposes unrelated to the business, and fraudulent concealment and conversion of money between online payment accounts of a spouse.

Police said on Friday, September 9, Mark Edward Vandenhouten, 46, and Sheryl Dawn Vandenhouten, 43, were arrested.

Both have been charged with fraud over $5,000, theft over $5,000, and laundering proceeds of crime.

The accused are scheduled to appear in court on October 25, 2016.