Emma Hunt, 37, spent thousands on parties, hospitality at sporting events, hotel stays, a five-star Caribbean holiday, cars, and designer goods.
An office manager who embezzled more than £900,000 from an Edinburgh property firm to fund a luxury lifestyle has been jailed for three years.
Emma Hunt, 37, spent thousands of pounds on parties, hospitality at sporting events, hotel stays, a five-star Caribbean holiday, cars, and designer goods. She paid out more than £39,000 for 80 friends to enjoy a Halloween break at Fenton Tower, a castle in East Lothian. She also spent thousands more on days out at the Scottish Open golf tournament, Musselburgh and Ayr races, and aHunt told her friends and colleagues that she owned a successful cleaning company that financed her lifestyle.
She also regularly created false invoices totalling large sums for"supplies" and"business expenses" which were again paid into her personal accounts.
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