A man has been jailed for stealing more than $100,000 from an agribusiness consultancy in order to fuel his gambling habit.
Shane Lloyd Vincent Comiskey, 49, was ordered to serve nine months of a three-year sentence on Monday after pleading guilty in Brisbane District Court to four counts of fraud as a director.
The court heard Comiskey was working for CDI Pinnacle Management in 2011 when he started sending invoices to clients providing his own bank details instead of a company account.
He used this system to siphon off $108,000 from CDI through 29 separate transactions in 2011.
The court was told Comiskey’s business partner discovered the fraud when he noticed some shortfalls in the accounts.
He confronted Comiskey, who admitted to the offe…
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