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Title: Finance boss stole £370k from his firm and bought kittens
Post by: Suppressed on June 25, 2018, 08:27:37 pm

Finance boss stole £370k from his firm and bought kittens
June 25, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-44604630 (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-44604630)

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Farrimond also bought a house with cash from the fraud  -- GMP

A building firm's finance boss siphoned off nearly £370,000 in company cash to fund a lavish lifestyle that included buying pedigree kittens, a court heard.

Matthew Farrimond, admitted 12 counts of fraud by pretending to pay the cash to charities and also one offence of money laundering.

Farrimond, 41, from Buckshaw Village, Chorley, was jailed four years, at a Bolton Crown Court hearing.

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Title: Re: Finance boss stole £370k from his firm and bought kittens
Post by: Suppressed on June 25, 2018, 08:28:26 pm

@Freya @Cyber Liberty @Hopalong Ginsberg @Slip18
Kitty ping

Title: Re: Finance boss stole £370k from his firm and bought kittens
Post by: Hopalong Ginsberg on June 26, 2018, 01:36:17 am

I can’t condone, but I do understand.

Title: Re: Finance boss stole £370k from his firm and bought kittens
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on June 26, 2018, 02:20:19 am

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Title: Re: Finance boss stole £370k from his firm and bought kittens
Post by: Slip18 on July 07, 2018, 08:45:19 pm

Quote from: Suppressed on June 25, 2018, 08:28:26 pm

@Freya @Cyber Liberty @Hopalong Ginsberg @Slip18
Kitty ping

"...pedigree kittens..."

If this person had adopted kitties, I might be a little bit sympathetic. 

Man is a thief.  Send him straight to jail where he belongs.

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