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A retired senior Mountie is due to make her first appearance in a Regina courtroom on Tuesday as the accused in an internal fraud from her former workplace.

Cheryl Jarvis, who was the sergeant in charge of the RCMP F Division Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness Service from May 2008 until October 2010, is accused of funnelling more than $18,000 in federal money into personal bank accounts.

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RCMP announced in a news release issued Monday afternoon that she has been charged with theft exceeding $5,000, fraud exceeding $5,000, forgery and using a forged document.

In February 2013, Saskatchewan RCMP received information regarding “accounting irregularities” within the Awareness Service.

“An investigation determined there was a misappropriation of more than $18,000 in funds from the Government of Canada into personal bank accounts,” according to the release.

An RCMP spokesperson confirmed that the money at issue came from RCMP accounts, and that the alleged offences occurred while Jarvis led the Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness Service. He could not confirm specifically how she was allegedly able to appropriate the funds, except to say that “a variety of different methods” were used.

The spokesperson could not confirm whether Jarvis allegedly directed the money into her own accounts, or into those of another party.

Jarvis retired from the RCMP in 2015.