A former workplace employee jailed for defrauding two development corporations has been ordered to pay again greater than £80,000 below Proceeds of Crime legal guidelines.
Stephanni Houston, 41, of Ayr, was sentenced to 38 months in jail in November 2023 for embezzling over £516,000 from two development corporations over 4 years.
Kilmarnock Sheriff Courtroom made a confiscation order within the sum of £81,589.86 and recorded that the advantage of prison conduct was £516,268.98.
The confiscation order may be revisited if additional property are recognized sooner or later to be paid in direction of the total quantity that was decided as the advantage of the crime.
Houston, often known as Bryden, was convicted at Kilmarnock Sheriff Courtroom after she admitted embezzling £253,281.30 whereas working as an workplace administrator at Kelburn Building in Kilmarnock from February 2017 to January 2019.
Months later she began embezzling £262,987.68 whereas working as a bookkeeper for WM Donnelly and Co Ltd in East Kilbride, taking the money between Might 2019, and March 2021.
A compensation order within the sum of £41,610.83 was awarded to Wm Donnelly and Co Ltd. A second compensation order within the sum of £39,979.03, was awarded to Kelburn Building.
Sineidin Corrins, Deputy Procurator Fiscal for Critical Casework on the Crown Workplace and Procurator Fiscal Service stated: “This confiscation underscores the truth that prosecution of these concerned in monetary crime doesn’t cease at prison conviction and sentencing.
“Even after that conviction was secured, the Crown pursued Proceeds of Crime motion to make sure the funds Stephanni Houston obtained illegally have been confiscated.
“Confiscation orders have ongoing monetary penalties, which means we are able to search to recuperate additional property from this particular person sooner or later to mirror the total quantity.”
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