Saanich soccer team discovers they are missing $250,000

Video: Andrew Wynn-Williams, with Victoria’s Gorgevale Soccer Association explains the growing mystery of how the organization is short $250,000.

A Saanich soccer team is dealing with a shocking discovery after finding out it could be missing as much as $250,000.

The Gorge Soccer Association ordered a forensic audit of its finances after discovering its bank account was empty, and up to a quarter of a million dollars had gone missing over the last five years.

They made the discovery after the club’s long-time president passed away suddenly, and the association gave signing authority to someone else.

“When we went back through the records, this is the anomalies we noticed,” said Andrew Wynn-Williams from the Gorge Soccer Association. “A lot of cheques had been cashed and that kind of thing, which, they may have been legitimate, some of them and some of them may not have been, but we won’t know.”

“We’ve initiated a forensic audit, and that will really give us the full information about what has gone on.”