Judge says Aaron Baslangic’s offending was so unsophisticated ‘a year 12 student could have worked out’ where money was going
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A former Coles executive has admitted stealing $1.9m from the national supermarket giant but a judge said his offending was so inexplicable and unsophisticated he must undergo psychiatric testing.
The county court judge Duncan Allen expressed shock that Aaron Baslangic never tried to cover his tracks, had no grand plans about what to do with the funds and most of it was left languishing in a bank account until he was caught.
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