A manager who embezzled more than £73,000 from a Dundee building firm has been jailed for 12 months.
Jonathan Green, 45, was sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court after admitting embezzling his former employers.
Green was employed as a contract sales manager at Grahams Building Merchants, on Faraday Street, when he committed the fraud.
He told two of the business’s clients to transfer money into a different account, claiming it was to help the firm reach a target.
But the bank details he provided them with were for his own personal account.
Unaware of the scam, the clients transferred a total of £73,386.38.
Fiscal depute Saima Rasheed said: “The first client paid £7,763 into the account and the second client paid £65,623.38 into the same account, which the accused had said belonged to the firm.”
The embezzlement was discovered a year after Green had carried out his fraudulent scheme.
Police were informed and he later admitted the offence, claiming he took the money due to financial difficulties.
Ross Bennett, defending, said: “Around £73,000 was paid into that account but he did not embezzle all of that.
“He would take the payments, and keep around two or three thousand pounds from each payment, then transfer the rest of the money to the business.
“He has paid back around £23,000 – that’s what he embezzled.”
Green, of Bractullo Gardens, Letham, Forfar, admitted that between August 1 2011 and July 27 2012, he embezzled £73,386.38.
Sheriff Drummond said: “I have taken into account that you have paid back what you benefitted.
“However, I still have to look at the amount embezzled and the length of time.
“I have to impose punishment accordingly.”
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