A CASE of alleged fraud and false accounting involving the former director of a Fermanagh playgroup has been transferred to the Crown Court.

Martin Cox (41) from Hillcrest, Enniskillen is accused of 16 offences comprising five counts each of fraud by false representation and fraud by abuse of position.

There are also four counts of making or supplying articles for use in fraud and single counts of false accounting and theft.

Offending is alleged to have occurred on various dates between October 2018 and December 2022.

It is contended Cox dishonestly made a number of cash transfers ranging from £750 to £5,000 to cause loss to Tiny Tots Cross Community Playgroup, and gain for himself.

It is further alleged he made a number of articles namely an email address, an invoice and a false email conversation each of which had been designed or adapted for use in the course of fraud.

He is also charged with stealing £7,838 cash from the playgroup accounts.

At the short hearing at Enniskillen Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, District Judge, Alana McSorley, ordered that the case will be transferred to the Crown Court, sitting in Newry, where it will be heard again on June 11.