Darlaston fraudster back in court for stealing more than £25k from Poundland
A former payroll worker who abused his position has been back to court over a new offence.
A former Poundland payroll worker has been sentenced for defrauding the retailer to the tune of more than £25,000.
It was the second time that Harminder Gill, of Moxley, Darlaston, has appeared before a crown court judge to be sentenced for fraud relating to his place of work.
The 30-year-old appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Tuesday(22) after previously admitting two counts of fraud by abuse of position under the Fraud Act between March 19 and March 22, 2023.
The case relates to sums totalling £25,200.71p which were taken from the Walsall based discount store chain. The court heard that at the time he owed debts and was working for the company which has administrative offices, in Midland Road, Walsall.
Sentencing him Judge John Edwards said: “I will reserve the matter to myself if you breach the order and come back to court in future. I will remember it and I will lock you up.”
Two months after carrying out the Poundland offences, Gill was sentenced in May 2023 for four-and-a-half years for defrauding Warwickshire company Euro Car Parts to sums of £350,000 where. Between May 2019 and October 2021 he exploited a glitch in the payroll system and transferred funds to himself which he spent on hotel suites and cars, and stays at London’s Shard.
For the Poundland offences Gill, of Hawkswood Drive, Moxley, Judge Edwards sentenced him to a community order for two years, ordered him to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work in the community and to attend 20 rehabilitation activity days with probation.
As he left the courtroom the defendant, thanked the judge, for not sending him back to prison.
Judge Edwards said a costs order will be added when a proceeds of crime hearing is held in the new year to recoup Gill’s ill-gotten gains.