A 70-year-old grandfather has been jailed for stealing greater than $2 million from his employer.
Richard Gordon Mackenzie pleaded responsible to at least one depend of stealing as a clerk or servant in Brisbane District Court docket final month.
The courtroom heard Mackenzie was properly revered within the cleansing trade when he took on a marketing consultant's function with an Underwood business cleansing enterprise.
He took over each day administration of the corporate when the proprietor took ailing in 2013/14.
Nevertheless it was when the corporate moved to on-line banking that the theft started, with Mackenzie additionally answerable for the financial institution transfers.
The courtroom heard that over a three-year interval Mackenzie transferred $2.3 million to his personal enterprise accounts, private accounts and household belief from the corporate's account.
He used 65 transactions to make the funds which remained undetected till the corporate obtained a big tax invoice.
The courtroom heard a big quantity of the cash went to Mackenzie's now-defunct trailer enterprise.
The enterprise proprietor and her daughter have been severely financially impacted because of Mackenzie's actions and it has taken important work to get the corporate again on its ft, in response to a sufferer influence assertion tendered to the courtroom.
In sentencing, Choose John Allen mentioned Mackenzie "had a really accountable and trusted place which (he) exploited".
He known as the scale of theft "breathtaking" telling Mackenzie, "You ought to be totally ashamed of your severe dishonesty".
The 70-year-old grandfather was sentenced to seven years' jail.
He'll be eligible for parole in two years.
Previous to this offending, the courtroom heard Mackenzie had a clear prison document.