Scottish man loses firm’s money playing online poker
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Twenty-five-year-old Chris Proudfoot of Scorguie, Scotland, has been accused of losing more than £2million pounds of his company’s money — by playing online poker.
Proudfoot worked for as a finance and credit controller for a telecommunications firm, HIGHnet.
According to a story on majorwager.com:
A pal said last night: “The word is that he was playing high-stakes poker online and got himself in too deep. It’s a shock to think that Chris has been gambling away his employers’ money. We never had him down as a gambling addict. He doesn’t go to the bookies in town and we’ve never known him to bet on anything.”
He allegedly ran up the colossal debt gambling online with William Hill. HIGHnet bosses asked Proudfoot to clear his desk five weeks ago and called in the fraud squad.
The exact amount lost by the man won’t be known until detectives conclude their investigation.
Whole thing here.
William Hill made headlines earlier this month when the site was taken to court by a man who claimed he was allowed to go £2million into debt, even though he had asked the site to exclude him. That case was thrown out.
