Mother-of-one Samina Khan, 48, of Wykeham Green, Dagenham, Essex, who stole nearly £1.2million from her property tycoon bosses while working for them as secretary and used it to splash out on a fleet of luxury cars said ‘thank you so much’ as a judge spared her jail.
She bought Aston Martins, BMWs, Porsches, and Audis while fiddling the books and forging signatures at Landmark and Duram Properties over a period of 13 years. She treated herself to personalised number plates and prestige vehicles.
Property tycoon brothers David and Richard Murad ‘utterly betrayed’, Ms Khan who had worked from October 1997 for 20 years, she was employed full time as the bookkeeper and secretary of Landmark Properties and Darum Properties owned by the Murad family.
She handled all the day to day banking she acted
‘Khan admitted stealing the money from Bianca’s account and destroying the cheque book she had used to make further payments.
Ms Khan purchased assets totalling around 1.6million with with the stolen money and paid back £330,000 almost immediately.
The court heard Khan would be able to pay back the losses by selling upmarket property she owns.
Southwark Crown Court heard Khan’s spouse suffered mental health problems which would complicate her son’s upbringing should she be sent to jail. She was let off with a suspended sentence to care for her child and her husband.
Khan sobbed before breaking into a grin and telling the judge: ‘Thank you so much’ after she admitted three counts of theft by employment and two counts of theft.
A further two counts of theft were left to lie on file and she was sentenced to two years imprisonment suspended for two years with 250 hours community service.
