A longtime employee at Saks Fifth Avenue in Boston's Back Bay is facing charges accusing him of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company.

Suhail Kwatra worked nearly two decades as a personal shopper, dressing Boston socialites, until an internal investigation revealed he was allegedly processing fraudulent returns.

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Asset protection officials from the company told police they only caught a few of those fraudulent transactions. They said Kwatra wrote a letter admitting to taking hundreds of thousands dollars, promising to pay it all back.

Contacted Tuesday, an attorney for Kwatra called the allegations "baseless," claiming they were made in retaliation for considering an employment opportunity e

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