Should have gone to Betfair, nobody loses there.

An IT manager has been jailed for seven years after defrauding his employers of £19million to feed his runaway gambling addiction.

Jonathan Revill exploited his position at multinational energy firm GDF Suez to order computer equipment, which he then sold on and used the proceeds to place bets online.

He would bet as much as £300,000 on a single sporting fixture - and continued to gamble thousands of pounds even after he was arrested.

The 38-year-old's wife was entirely unaware of his criminal behaviour, which included buying a £500,000 family home with company money, and did not know that he had previously been declared bankrupt.

Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday that father-of-one Revill forged invoices to buy computer equipment while working as a service delivery systems manager at GDF Suez Energy in Leeds.

When the equipment arrived, he would send it either to his home in Huddersfield or to a storage unit, then sell it on to other companies or auction it on eBay.

Although he sold the computers at a loss compared to their original price, he made a profit of £5.6million over the course of three years, in addition to his £55,000-a-year salary and £400-a-month car allowance.

Revill had submitted a total of 104 invoices - totalling £18,976,062 - for equipment before auditors uncovered the fraud in May.

He was arrested and granted bail on condition he stopped gambling and sought help - but just days later, he withdrew thousands from an account based in the Isle of Man and splurged it on an online betting site.

 

 In a three-hour spree on Bet365, he placed high-value bets on football, baseball and the tennis French Open - including an £11,250 bet on Gilles Simon to beat Roger Federer, which he lost.

He won £27,757 during an England v Brazil football match by betting that it would be 0-0 at half time, before losing £17,757 after betting on Brazil to win the match.

The court heard that the only asset Revill purchased from his scam was his house, which he bought outright with money withdrawn from an online betting account.

A proceeds of crime hearing to be held later this year will decide how much Revill must pay back.

He'll flip them for it

 

NotBert wrote:He'll flip them for it

The head of the professional football players' union Gordon Taylor is a serial gambler who has run up debts of more than £100,000, it has been alleged.
Despite repeatedly warning of the dangers of betting in recent years, Taylor put an estimated £4million on 2,000 bets over the course of 30 months, according to The Sun.
Most of his gambling involved bets on horse racing, but he also spent thousands of pounds betting on Premier League matches.
Taylor, who has previously called for a 'zero tolerance' approach to footballers' gambling, is said to have lost £15,000 when England failed to beat Switzerland in 2011.
Taylor's horse race betting is said to have seen him run up a debt of more than £100,000 with a firm called Best Bet.

 

Shrewd cunt eh?....fuck playing at Betfair with a 100% book when you can bet against online firms and their 15% margins.
 

He sounds a right cunt Tone, telling players about gambling and cant keep himself in check  

Fuck his gambling, he's the highest paid union boss in the country and he forever fails to represent his members.

He's been stealing a fucking living for years. Everyone comes round to my way of thinking in the end and he's part of the reason professional football in this country is little more than a second rate clown show in comparison to the circuses of the rest of Europe, say.

Gambling hypocrite merely shows the fundamental flaws in the man at a personal level. At a professional level, you can't paper over the cracks. I'll be fucking glad if he goes.