More charges laid on Canberra childcare director Emma Morton accused of $330,000 fraud

Emma Morton appeared from jail by video in the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday where she was formally charged with a further 26 counts of fraud totaling more than $170,000.

She was also granted bail on a list of strict conditions, including that she surrender her passport.

The new allegations against Ms Morton include that she moved amounts ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes in more than one transaction a day.

She allegedly made two separate transfers of $50,000 each.

She now faces a total of 49 charges alleging she illegally transferred more than $330,000 dollars from the Weston Creek Children's Centre to her own accounts.

At a bail hearing last week the court heard there was up to $500,000 unaccounted for from the centre's bank accounts.

The 46-year-old has not entered any pleas.

Ms Morton has been in the Alexander Maconochie Centre since police raided her Campbell home and arrested her a week ago.

But on Wednesday, Magistrate Louise Taylor freed Ms Morton on bail, on a list of conditions that banned her from going to the childcare centre, accessing its accounts and contacting its employees.

Her release was not opposed by prosecutors.

Before the allegations Ms Morton had been director of the centre for 22 years.

She will reappear in court at a future date.

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