A man employed as a tax adviser by an accountancy firm for three decades has been jailed for defrauding his employer and clients out of almost £250,000 to pay for his gambling habit Timothy Bash was sentenced to three years in prison at Norwich Crown Court after pleading guilty to fraud by abuse of position at an earlier hearing. The court heard how Bash had been employed by the accountancy firm Lovewell Blake for 30 years and was responsible for offering tax advice and completing tax returns for approximately 230 clients. In March 2017 Lovewell Blake was contacted by the family of a recently deceased client claiming they had found a letter from Bash requesting a £4,500 loan. Further enquiries established that Bash had not recorded this arrangement with his employer and had only paid back £500. Two days later Bash requested a meeting with his managers and disclosed that he had a gambling addiction and that he had been taking money from clients over a number of years. This resulted in the management at Lovewell Blake calling the police and Bash was arrested.
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