In Ontario, Canada, Justice Nyron Dwyer sentenced former Crane Payment Innovations (CPI) employee Natalia Pouchkina to six years in prison and ordered her to repay within six years the $5.5 million she stole from the company, according to The Toronto Sun.
Pouchkina pleaded guilty to a count of fraud over $5,000 for diverting money while working for CPI in Vaughan, Canada, between March 2014 and May 2015.
According to the source Pouchkina made 32 fictitious transactions and bilked CPI for $5.46 million, then fled to Europe. Pouchkina reportedly purchased four European properties valued at nearly $2.4 million.