Posted by
Corthell on Sunday, January 03, 2010 3:19:28 PM
''Be wary, very wary you
liquor store owners...''
In a
surprising move, a gaming company has agreed to pay back some of the millions of kronor a company in Uppsala in eastern Sweden lost due to an employee’s gambling addiction.
“As far as I know, this is the first time this has happened,” Mattias Ekenberg with Swedish gaming addicts group Spelberoendes förening told the Upsala Nya Tidning (UNT) newspaper.The 4.9 million kronor ($673,000) repayment deal, details of which remain secret according to a representative from the Uppsala company, comes after the woman in charge of the firm’s finances gambled away 15 million kronor in company funds.The woman was recently sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay 10 million kronor in compensation to the company, which had to lay off some of its roughly 30 employees and saw what it expected to be a profitable year turn into one with a multi-million kronor loss because of the woman’s actions.The woman’s attorney, Anders Wallin, said he plans to ask the court to reduce the amount of money his client has been ordered to pay if he can confirm the gaming company’s repayment. http://www.thelocal.se/24076/20091228/