A former Maori All Black Lindsay Raki was sentenced today to
two years and nine months in jail for stealing pokies grant money totalling
more than $300,000.
The intended recipients of the grants that ended up in his
account were the Manurewa High School Rugby Academy and Counties Manukau Youth
Development Inc.
Both groups were set-up to promote Youth Rugby.
Raki, an accountant, was the Academy's financial controller.
Raki was described by the judge as: “A dishonest witness who
has in part woven an account that might accord with some legitimate
documentation he can produce, and then created documents after the event to
fill in the gaps and back up his story.”
No mention has been made as to restitution, $300,000 is a
hell of a lot of money to embezzle.
With good behaviour he’ll be out in little over a year.
I would consider a year in low security jail for $300,000 –
wouldn’t you?
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