In 2018 a 27-year-old Tasmanian assistant financial accountant was convicted of multiple counts of fraud after stealing $292,955, most of it from his employer. The court heard the man had committed the fraud to fund a gambling addiction, pouring the stolen money into a Sportsbet account, whereupon he lost it all. He was sentenced to jail and was issued with compensation orders, despite being deeply in debt.
Sportsbet kept the money.
In 2021 a 48-year-old Tasmanian woman faced court after stealing $940,221 from the veterinary practice where she worked, and accruing a debt of $24,218 on a fraudulently obtained credit card. She had been diagnosed with a gambling disorder at the most extreme end and spent most of the money playing a social cas…
Read the full article at: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/28/proceeds-of-gambling-firms-keep-millions-when-australians-steal-to-fund-addiction