$23,000 restitution
PA Auckland Friends and family of an Auckland bank officer raised nearly $23,000 in a week to make restitution for his computer fraud. While Gregory John Pene, aged 26, of Mt Albert, spent last week in custody, full restitution of $22,924 was made to the ANZ Bank.
Pene earlier pleaded
guilty in the District Court at Auckland to two charges of . increasing overdraft credit limits by making false computer entries while a servant of the bank. The fraud was discovered on June 29 when a service and commission fee of $5O was charged to one account, eiing it past its overdraft t.
Ms Marie Dyhrberg, for
Pene, said the money was taken to repay gambling debts.
Judge D. D. Finnigan accepted Ms Dyhrberg’s submission that Pene should remain in the community and sentenced him to 10 months* periodic detention. He told Pene: “Ten months periodic detention, you will find, is a very hard sentence.”
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