A bid has been launched by the Crown Office to recoup some of the £1 million a Dundee council worker took from the local authority by fraud.
Mark Conway, 52, was jailed for five years and four months in August, after admitting defrauding the city council of £1,065,085 between August 2009 and May 2016.
The IT worker, of Latch Road, Brechin, had altered invoices to pay money from the local authority’s bank account into his personal account — but made it look like the money was being paid to legitimate creditors.
He claimed he had done so due to a gambling addiction and subsequent debts.
Now, a confiscation hearing is set to be held as the Crown Office seeks to get back some of the money he took.
An initial hearing will take place on October 30 at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Details of how much the Crown is seeking through the action have not been confirmed.
However, Conway is said to still owe more than £750,000 of the cash he took.
The court action, taken under the Proceeds of Crime (Scotland) Act, can force a convict to pay a fixed sum of money to reflect the benefit they obtained from their criminal activity.
In criminal confiscation cases, the money paid by the criminal is paid to the Scottish Consolidated Fund.
A spokeswoman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said that no further details could be confirmed.
After Conway was put behind bars, Detective Inspector Iain McPhail, the senior investigating officer in the case, said he had never seen public sector fraud, carried out by a single individual, on that scale.
At the time of sentencing, the High Court in Glasgow heard that Conway had signed over most of his pension and a lump sum, totalling £258,966, to the council.
His home, which has £49,000 equity, was also being sold with the money to go to the local authority.
However, at that time only £7,000 was said to have been returned.
Taking into account the cash paid, his pension and lump sum, and the equity from the house, more than £750,000 he fraudulently obtained would still be unaccounted for.
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