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Ex-comptable dans une entreprise de production de materiels pétroliers, la femme britannique Joanne Kent (26 ans) vient d'être condamnée à 2 ans de prison ferme pour avoir volé 521 000 euros à son employeur pour s'offrir un mariage de rêve et mener une vie de princesse!
La comptable délinquante produisait des factures fictives et transferait les sommes détournées dans ses comptes bancaires!
Accountant stole £470,000 for wedding and luxury life
An accountant who swindled £470,000 from her employer to fund an extravagant lifestyle, including a lavish dream wedding at a cliff-top hotel, has been jailed for two years.
Joanne Kent, 26, wept in the dock as Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how she was caught despite making sophisticated attempts to cover her tracks by deleting computer records.
The court heard how the married mother-of-two, of Blue Anchor in Fraddon, Cornwall, handed Armani bracelets out as gifts at her wedding to husband David in Newquay in 2007.
Kent, whose children are aged three years and two months, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to theft and fraud against Walsall-based Wilson UK Ltd.
Mark Phillips, prosecuting, told Judge Michael Challinor that Kent now faced an application under the Proceeds of Crime Act to recover money and assets gained illegally. Her exact wealth is still being assessed.
Kent, who sat with her head bowed throughout almost all of the hearing, perpetrated 37 individual frauds against Wilson, which makes equipment for the oil industry.
Mr Phillips said Kent joined the accounts department at Wilson - which has an annual turnover of up to £17 million - in 2002 and worked her way up to the position of team leader.
Between June 2005 and April 2007, Kent took £475,892 by diverting payments apparently being made to creditors into her bank accounts.
''She used the money in part to fund an extravagant lifestyle,'' Mr Phillips said. ''By her own admission, she admits she spent £50,000 on her wedding.
''The hotel bill came to £37,134, without flowers, cars and fireworks on the beach.''
Kent, formerly of Cannock, Staffordshire, also invested in property and told friends that she had bought a £48,000 Mazda and a £30,000 Audi.
''She had told members of staff that she had inherited money from her grandfather,'' Mr Phillips added.
Passing sentence, Judge Challinor said it appeared the fraud was only traced because Kent created a false invoice relating to an American company in pounds rather than dollars.
''It was a relatively sophisticated fraud,'' the judge said. ''Only a mistake, as to the type of currency used, alerted the company to this fraud.
''Most of the money was squandered on an extravagant lifestyle, either for your benefit directly or in order to show off to your friends.''
source : Daily Telegraph
Joanne Kent lors de son mariage luxueux.
Joanne Kent cache son visage le jour du procès.
La comptable délinquante produisait des factures fictives et transferait les sommes détournées dans ses comptes bancaires!
Accountant stole £470,000 for wedding and luxury life
An accountant who swindled £470,000 from her employer to fund an extravagant lifestyle, including a lavish dream wedding at a cliff-top hotel, has been jailed for two years.
Joanne Kent, 26, wept in the dock as Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how she was caught despite making sophisticated attempts to cover her tracks by deleting computer records.
The court heard how the married mother-of-two, of Blue Anchor in Fraddon, Cornwall, handed Armani bracelets out as gifts at her wedding to husband David in Newquay in 2007.
Kent, whose children are aged three years and two months, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to theft and fraud against Walsall-based Wilson UK Ltd.
Mark Phillips, prosecuting, told Judge Michael Challinor that Kent now faced an application under the Proceeds of Crime Act to recover money and assets gained illegally. Her exact wealth is still being assessed.
Kent, who sat with her head bowed throughout almost all of the hearing, perpetrated 37 individual frauds against Wilson, which makes equipment for the oil industry.
Mr Phillips said Kent joined the accounts department at Wilson - which has an annual turnover of up to £17 million - in 2002 and worked her way up to the position of team leader.
Between June 2005 and April 2007, Kent took £475,892 by diverting payments apparently being made to creditors into her bank accounts.
''She used the money in part to fund an extravagant lifestyle,'' Mr Phillips said. ''By her own admission, she admits she spent £50,000 on her wedding.
''The hotel bill came to £37,134, without flowers, cars and fireworks on the beach.''
Kent, formerly of Cannock, Staffordshire, also invested in property and told friends that she had bought a £48,000 Mazda and a £30,000 Audi.
''She had told members of staff that she had inherited money from her grandfather,'' Mr Phillips added.
Passing sentence, Judge Challinor said it appeared the fraud was only traced because Kent created a false invoice relating to an American company in pounds rather than dollars.
''It was a relatively sophisticated fraud,'' the judge said. ''Only a mistake, as to the type of currency used, alerted the company to this fraud.
''Most of the money was squandered on an extravagant lifestyle, either for your benefit directly or in order to show off to your friends.''
source : Daily Telegraph
Joanne Kent lors de son mariage luxueux.
Joanne Kent cache son visage le jour du procès.
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