Worker embezzled £23k from branch

Assistant manager raked in cash from fake refunds

- COURT REPORTER

The former assistant manager of a Renfrewshire builders’ merchants who admitted to embezzling over £23,000 by making fake refunds to himself has avoided a jail sentence.

Disgraced Erol Doganoz was snared when a customer of Paisley Jewsons' attended the Greenhill Road store for a refund for unused items.

The computer system flagged a refund had already been made for these items - however, not by the customer.

The sneaky 29-year-old would wait until the branch manager had left work for the day before issuing himself cash and debit card refunds when he was cashing up for the night.

Procurator fiscal depute Alyson McLaughlan previously told Paisley Sheriff Court Doganoz began working with Jewsons in a Glasgow branch around 10 years ago, working up to his role as assistant manager of the Paisley store.

She told how Jewsons uses a computerised sales system which employees access using unique personal user identification numbers.