'We’ve been friends; we’ve been family ... and you were able to betray me' said a fellow bookkeeper who discovered Fatemeh Kazemzadeh Jartoudeh's $214,000 theft from the companies that operate Freshslice Pizza.
A former Freshslice bookkeeper has been handed a two-year conditional sentence with a curfew for one year after defrauding the pizza-by-the-slice chain of more than $200,000.
Kazemzadeh lost all the money on day trading, which defence lawyer Michael Mines said she engaged in to take her mind off a cancer diagnosis she got in 2013.Kazemzadeh stole the money by making false invoice amounts and entries in the companies' accounting system and then paying them by cheque or etransfer to her own accounts, according Crown prosecutor Peter Campbell.
The thefts were discovered by the companies' office manager, Tamila Khayrullaeva, in May 2018, when Kazemzadeh was on vacation."I came today with the main purpose to look at her face," Khayrullaeva told the court. Khayrullaeva said she became "emotionally ill and totally drained" when she discovered the thefts and had to spend "hours and hours" analyzing the books and apologizing to clients about overdue and missing payments."We’ve been friends; we’ve been family," she said, her voice emotional. "You’ve been in my house all the time. I gave you my secrets and you were able to betray me.
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