An Edinburgh sales manager who created false invoices for a printing company to claim phoney expenses has been convicted of fraud.
Lindsay Bunney invented invoices for a firm based at a nonexistent address in East Lothian to carry out the con. But an investigation by his bosses uncovered the £1260 scam and he was immediately fired.
Bunney, 46, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday which heard he carried out the scheme while facing financial problems and a collapsing marriage.
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Fiscal depute Oliver Davidson-Richards said Bunney was working as a sales manager for BSI for Scotland and the north of England.
Mr Davidson-Richards said Bunney, who had a company credit card as part of his role, became the subject of a workplace probe, reports the Record.
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He said there was a “number of transactions” where expenses were claimed “under the guise of a company called Precision Printing”.
The prosecutor added: “That was supposed to be based at an address in East Lothian that did not exist.”
The court heard that “false invoices” had been created by Bunney.
Defence agent Melissa Virtue said dad-of-two Bunney had been dismissed by his employer when the fraud came to light.
Ms Virtue said her client and his now ex-wife were having financial problems at the time which led to them having to stay at his in-laws home.
She said Bunney was out of work for four months after being sacked and his marriage ended.
The solicitor said Bunney was working as a sales director for a Canadian software company and was in a position to repay the cash.
First offender Bunney, of the city’s Niddrie area, pled guilty to forming a fraudulent scheme between June 15 2015 and November 27 2016 involving a company bank card and obtaining £1260 by fraud.
Sheriff Roderick Flinn deferred sentence until next month for reports.
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