Natalie Saul, a 37-year-old mother-of-one from Wansworth, South London, stole £350,000 from her technology firm primarily to feed an online poker addiction. According to DailyMail, Saul created over 400 fake invoices to get money from the software company between March 2015 and December 2016. She lost over £250,000 playing online poker during that time.
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If she would have put that money into bitcoin she would be able to pay back the money she stole plus some fine and still have some money left to play poker wizh during zjis time period...
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Wow! £350,000? That is nearly US$500,000! I think £350,000 is a pretty good amount of money for a regular Londoner. And she lost over £250,000 playing online poker in 21 months? That's more than £10,000 per month! Seriously?
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What is 10.000 per month if one plays higher stakes, and that quite bad? This could easily be blown in one session alone, cause i don't expect her to play NL10.
But what the judge did would be called collusion at the tables.
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Dropping 250,000+ GBP in just 20 months or so is pretty impressive even if she was a regular at NL500 or higher. The question is whether she lost money on purpose or not. It might have been a part of money laundering scheme. Who is (are) the real culprit(s)?
Posted by shokaku: But what the judge did would be called collusion at the tables.
Yeah, kind of.
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What kinda of sentence was that. Like you can steal a fortune from your work, in order to gmable the money away and then get away with it, with 250 hours of community work and 360 pounds payback? Was that judge for real?
It will sure give ideas to others. All they have to do is find a good lawyer after all, and pick that silly judge to run their case, right?
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ok this was a sentence out of the blue really, kinda telling everyone- hey fellas you are free to steal from your employers, commit fraud and then do whatever you want with that money and you will get suspended sentence and will be required to pay 1% of what you stole back...
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If I would steal I would do 7 years of prison. Instead this feminin delinquent and falsification of documents escape too easily. This is not normal. The law sleeps in her case. I would condemn this woman for committing more offences. This woman should pay for it.
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This seems crazy that she could get away so lightly. I have known people go to jail for a lot less than she did and this makes a mockery of our justice system, it really is laughable
She just happened tilt ...... in the beginning, she probably tried to win a little at the expense of the firm's money .... she did not get it and she began to recoup ... and everything only worsened and worsened ..... and Everything ended for some reason well
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I am not familiar with the justice system in UK. But at first glance, the court decision seems unreasonable. Did the defendant agree to disclose a record or other information pertaining to the case? Do UK judges have to follow legal precedent?
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Hello my friends and fellow mobsters This judge must be the joke of the system what is he thinking to let her go free ,wait maybe he is also a poker player that crossed her at the poker tables and won big from her so he his thinking ahead maybe she steals more and he wins again
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Yes to it is also soinds so strange and I think not what must be, I think this lady did a crime and because is guilty sbe has to be give bigger punishment. I think she also nust give all the koney she steals back to the owners of money and if she cannot then just gp tp jail
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Yea, this penalty must be recorded, like one of the silliest in the judging history No matter what, i doubt she even expected, that punishment at all. Even if the judge had ruled to serve her jail time, in community work, he would have been too lenient. And yet 250 hours of it
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Posted by Mober: Yea, this penalty must be recorded, like one of the silliest in the judging history No matter what, i doubt she even expected, that punishment at all. Even if the judge had ruled to serve her jail time, in community work, he would have been too lenient. And yet 250 hours of it
I think there is something else in the middle. I think this woman has relationships over to the English court in this way managing to escape with an offensive punishment for other thieves. Is not a right judgment is a direct favor. In my country for a bread is 3 year in jail. She stole a super luxury car if we compare it and escaped cheaply.
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whenever I re-read this story it makes me feel wanting to go and steal from someone, like government, big businesses etc. I mean it's just good business to steal on such terms, you steal 100% and return 1%, 99% of stolen is yours, ok you have to split the profit with judge and lawyer... but you're still left with 50% i'm sure
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It doesnt give a lesson to no one. Not the offender, or the ones that thinking of committing a crime. Just follow the rules and give a bit less than usual, if you dont want to be that strict. But this is ridiculous. Still cant "digest" it
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I am a guy who believes very little in these sensational news! They sound like they are a movie or they make you at least the idea that it is so, because when reading the news there are several points that do not close. But of something I am sure: the robbery is a totally unjustifiable action and must be punished by the authorities of turn.-
Posted by pochui: whenever I re-read this story it makes me feel wanting to go and steal from someone, like government, big businesses etc.
If you are not using a service form a big company you kinda cheatin' them out of money. Don't go shopping to TESCO - you cause them to loose between 20-50 euro straight away. What better way is to 'stole' $ from them?
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Tesco? Is that a discount store? My problem is that I often buy items I already have because of the reasonable price. I still haven't used all these condoms I bought 5 years ago. And I just can't throw them away!!!
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