Employee jailed for exploiting her position to obtain over $600k in gift cards

Relevant impacts: Financial impact, Business impact and Government system impact.

A university employee submitted false invoices via the university’s procurement system to fraudulently obtain 198 EFTPOS gift cards valued over $600,000.

The woman also stole a further 102 Coles Myer gift cards that belonged to the university with a value of $36,650. The woman was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison after pleading guilty to offences of misconduct in public office and obtaining property by deception and theft.