He recently placed a candidate he met 10 years ago at an association meeting into an information-technology-audit position at a large East Coast health-care company.
However, a court case in Paris in October last year revealed him to be Denis Lion, a manager who had been temporarily demoted from his position in the bank's internal audit department in May 1999.
She explained that the bill had been brought forward to reform and modernise the governance of the Wales Audit Office (WAO) and the position of auditor general for Wales, in response to problems that had arisen in the past.
Ms. Lew says she learned about her current position in 2004 after conversations with several fellow members of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.