Gambling criminals deserve lengthy sentences
Gambling, as with other addictions, too often leads down the road of crime to fund the habit, with a trail of wrecked lives scattered along the way.
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Gambling, as with other addictions, too often leads down the road of crime to fund the habit, with a trail of wrecked lives scattered along the way.
Pathological gambler Cindy Saunders, who was sentenced last month to an effective nine years in prison for defrauding two companies out of almost R17m to fund her addiction, cannot appeal her sentence.
A woman has been jailed after she was found guilty of defrauding two companies of around R16 million to pay off her gambling debt.
An export controller in Durban has been slapped with a jail sentence in a multi-million-rand fraud case.
Judge says the amount of money she stole over a short period of time ranked as among the highest amounts he had come across