Financial controller jailed for stealing from employer

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A 46-year-old Winnipeg man who was stealing from his employers to pay off his enormous personal debt has been sentenced to nine months behind bars.

Brian Robert Baker was sentenced Thursday after he admitted to stealing more than $70,000 at his new job, while he was on a nine-month conditional sentence order for stealing from his old job.

Baker was a financial controller at Superb Construction earning a $77,500 annual salary when he inflated his own paycheque to fraudulently collect a $90,000 annual salary between January 2015 and April 2017. At the time, he had already admitted to a previous fraud over $5,000 and was serving a nine-month conditional sentence out of custody.

Court heard Thursday Baker was taking the money to repay his own personal debts, which had accumulated to about half a million dollars because of his over-spending.

In total, he was ordered to pay his two employers nearly $88,000 in restitution, which he did before court sheriff’s officers took him into custody Thursday afternoon. Provincial court Judge Fred Sandhu imposed the nine-month jail sentence and three years of probation after accepting a joint recommendation from Crown and defence lawyers.