NatWest manager who stole £344,000 from cash machine to fund his gambling habit is spared jail
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For eight years, a Natwest Bank Branch Manager who stole £ 344,000 from cash machines was imprisoned.
44 -year -old John Toms stole the enormous sum of the ATMs at the Moorgate branch in London, where he had special access here.
He drew money between January 2016 and April 2024, It covers its traces by beating, falsifying the records of his colleagues, falsifying the records and even crawling to the branch to return to the daily controlled cash records.
Southwark Crown Court agreed to steal cash to finance gambling addiction after internal investigation.
Alexander Matic, ‘from 2003 to 2023, worked with Natwest. He was in a high -level role … When he left, he received £ 47,000 a year. ‘
Authorized, the bank manager will control the amounts of senior personnel in cash machines at least four times a year, but in the intervening periods, he added that he abused the position of access to ATMs.
A total of £ 344,410 was not calculated as it follows a compromise in the Moorgate branch.
The court heard how great efforts of the bank manager to cover up the paths and avoid discovery.
John Toms stole £ 344,410 for six years from Natwest ATMs (in the picture), and beat the signatures of his colleagues and covered their tracks and falsified the records.
A court heard that the former banker used the stolen funds for a gambling addiction and has paid back £ 100,000 since then – the entire pension
Toms falsified cash records, using money from other places at work, filling the gaps’ balances’ balances’.
Mr. Matic said: ‘At the end of the day, he would get money from the records almost daily.
“ Then the others came early the next morning before arriving, reaches the ATMs, gets the exact amount he received from the ATMs the previous night and put it in the Kasa, ‘ Telegraph reported.
Following two internal investigations, the former banker agreed to play from Natwest for several years, but insisted that he was acting alone.
Toms used stolen funds to feed gambling addiction, and despite some repayments, Natwest still owes £ 250,000.
He also apologized to the bank.
Defense lawyer Siddick Gokhool told the court that Toms had regretted Toms before, and that he regretted not only for what he did, but also for Natwest and mainly for his family.
The authority added: ‘Toms said that he was “happy to receive a pension for reimbursement to the police, but his client agreed that there was a major gap between £ 100,000 and £ 344,000 £ 344,000.
The court also heard that the banker was diagnosed with cancer.
Toms from Plaistow Prince Regent Lane was found guilty of theft by an employee and fake accounting, but Judge Tony Baumgartner refused to prison after he sentenced him to two years in prison.
In addition, unpaid work and a rehabilitation program must be completed within 12 months.
