Tasmanian man uses employer's fuel card to unlawfully buy more than $20k of petrol

Justice Jago said the crime was a "brazen manipulation of your employer's system for your own financial gain". (ABC News)

• In short: A 38-year-old man used his employer's fuel card to purchase thousands of dollars worth of fuel for himself, some of which he on-sold
• What's next? Barrett received a suspended sentence of seven months. It is suspended on the condition he doesn't commit any crime punishable by imprisonment for the next two years

A Tasmanian man who used company money to purchase more than $24,000 worth of fuel, which he used to fill up his own cars and onsold to friends, has avoided jail time.