In 2018 a 27-year-old Tasmanian assistant financial accountant was convicted of multiple counts of fraud after stealing $292,955, most of it from his employer. The court heard the man had committed the fraud to fund a gambling addiction, pouring the stolen money into a Sportsbet account, whereupon he lost it all. He was sentenced to jail and was issued with compensation orders, despite being deeply in debt.
Sportsbet kept the money.
