The former accountant for two New Zealand fashion companies has been sentenced to 12 months of home detention for siphoning off more than $370,000 of the companies' money.
The woman, who has permanent name suppression, procured $377,164 by repeatedly falsifying details in the companies' accounting systems during her five-year employment.
In the Auckland District Court yesterday, the woman was sentenced to 12 months' home detention subject to approval of her address.
The court heard how the woman was in charge of the banking and asset control, and had the single signing authority for the two companies.
The offending began less than two months into her employment and ended three days before she resigned.
