New unit and Audi for worker who took $284k from employer A woman has been jailed after stealing more than $280,000 from the major mining company she worked for, using it to buy an inner-city apartment and new car. Crime by Kay Dibben Premium Content Subscriber only A woman who defrauded her mining company employer of $284,000, spending some of it on an inner-city Brisbane apartment and a luxury car she could not afford, has been jailed. Nicole Rani Gunthorpe, 43, had worked for Kestrel Coal as a lead accounts payment clerk for only weeks when she began siphoning company money into her bank accounts.