Raven Subramoney conned his employer out of £18,600 (€21,780/$24,305).
Subramoney, who worked for the London-based law firm Browne Jacobson, received a “16 month suspended sentence” for the cartridge scam, reported Legal Cheek. The former employee, who was a “national documents services manager”, used a fabricated “audit trail” to cover his tracks and then sold the cartridges on eBay. allegedly using the money to pay off his alleged gambling debts to “loan sharks”.
The 33-year-old confessed to his employers in June 2014, and offered to pay the money back, but he was sacked and “barred from working in the legal sector” in December that same year. When his wife learned about the fraud she left him, which led to Subramoney sleeping rough or “on friends’ sofas” after he was made homeless.
Judge Johannah Cutts QC ordered him to repay the money back to Browne Jacobsonm and to do “150 hours of community service”. Cutts said that “you were in a position of trust. For many months you abused that trust by ordering toners for printer models your company didn’t possess and then selling them on to others”.
A spokesperson for the law firm commented: “Although incidents such as these are extremely rare, we take any acts of theft and fraudulent activity extremely seriously. Our internal controls at the time were able to quickly identify the incidences of internal fraud which had occurred over a short period. As a result we took immediate action to dismiss the employee in question, who had at that time only been in employment for a few months, following a thorough internal investigation.
“We also informed the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the police who concluded that Mr. Subramoney had abused his position of trust and engaged in criminal activity, resulting in a successful prosecution. His actions have had no impact on client delivery, data or monies.”