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Bank manager busted after allegedly swiping nearly $300G

An East Village bank manager was busted after he swiped almost $300,000 from a customer’s account, authorities said.

Coworkers of Jairo Valero, 34, confronted him at a meeting at the Sovereign Bank on Avenue A near E 4th Street on Feb. 26 about stealing money from the account, police sources said. The bank then called 911 after he walked out of the location.

The crook allegedly pilfered an account at a Sovereign Bank on 8th Street on Nov. 26, withdrawing $5,000, court papers state.

He then allegedly struck the same account again on Jan. 30, withdrawing $9,000, authorities said.

When he got away with that, he then brazenly wrote two checks to himself from the same account for $275,000, court papers state.

Sources say he returned the money to the customer’s account before he was taken into police custody.

He was arrested March 7 at the 9th precinct stationhouse, and charged with four counts of grand larceny.

The 5-foot-2 manager is currently being held at a Manhattan jail on a $75,000 bond, records show.

A Sovereign Bank spokesman said that Valero was fired, and that the company was cooperating with the police.