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Article: Social club account used for gambling
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- October 28, 2005
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The trusted employee of a Nelson-based machinery import company
used a social club as his private bank, as part of a $231,000 rip-
off of company funds for gambling.
In the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday , Stephen Michael
Creek, 45, admitted 81 charges of using documents for pecuniary
advantage, and three counts of theft.
The court was told that total funds swindled by Creek over five
years came to $231,399, which was claimed as reparation.
Creek, a first offender, was remanded on bail for sentence next
month by Judge Stephen Erber, who warned him jail was almost certain.
A police summary of facts said Creek was employed as a sales
consultant by W and R Jack Ltd, a woodwork ...