Woman Accused Of Embezzling Nearly $200K From Darien Company: Police

DARIEN, CT — A 40-year-old woman accused of embezzling nearly $200,000 from the Darien company she worked at was arrested on Sept. 15, according to the Darien Police Department.

Daria Opolski, of Norwalk, turned herself in on an active arrest warrant stemming from an incident that was reported on Aug. 4.

Police said Opolski was charged with first-degree larceny: embezzlement; first-degree identity theft and second-degree forgery — all felonies.

"The victim came to police headquarters to report a larceny involving a large sum of money embezzled from her business account by one of her employees," Darien police said in a news release. "The victim reported that the employee she suspects was Opolski."
Police did not name the company.

Police said that while the victim was reviewing the company's financial records, she found some discrepancies and noticed payments were made to credit cards that did not belong to the company. It was discovered that over $50,000 had been embezzled from the business account over the years, police said.

"Opolski was questioned regarding these claims. Opolski admitted that she wrote several checks and made them payable to a family member's company," police said in a news release. "Opolski stated that the victim trusted her and would not review any of the documents she needed to be signed."

Opolski told police that after the documents were signed, she would change the information in QuickBooks to the name of a company that would be recognizable, police said in a news release.

Police told the victim to go back further into her records for more discrepancies.

"The victim provided additional evidence dating back to 2017 that $144,533 was embezzled from her company account," police said in a news release.

An arrest was granted for Opolski with a court set bond of $50,000, police said

Opolski was released on a 10 percent cash option, according to police. She's scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 28.