A FORMER manager of Coles Liquorland Miranda has been ordered to repay $17,850 to his old employer and do 75 hours of community service after pleading guilty to embezzlement and larceny in August, 2006.
Troy Glen Fenech, 32, formerly of Illawong, now of
Wattlegrove, appeared before Sutherland Local Court on February 2.
Magistrate Eve Wynhausen said he had had a long time to think about the offences. "This has been hanging over your head," she said.
He had not committed any crimes before or after the two offences and now had a family with family responsibilities, she said.
The magistrate said the community service Fenech was ordered to perform would have an impact on his family life.
Police said when Fenech worked for Coles he would divide the week's takings into separate envelopes for profit and a float, enter figures in a computer and put the envelopes into a safe accessible only by a security company.
Security video showed Fenech did not place all the envelopes into the safe but instead placed some in a drawer he later opened. The security company noted an anomaly between the amounts received and the automated data on the computer. Coles dismissed Fenech who made some admission and returned $3000 to his employer.
The magistrate convicted Fenech on both charges and ordered him to repay the money to the court registry and to pay $81 in court costs for both offences.
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