A LESBIAN love triangle where one woman "emotionally blackmailed'' her accountant partner into stealing $1.4 million from her employer forced the closure of six Kings Jewellers stores and caused 60 staff to lose their jobs, a court has heard.
Brisbane District Court Judge Hugh Botting sentenced Luisa Touli, 40, to nine years' jail for manipulating two women she'd been in a relationship with into committing the million dollar fraud, including co-offender Faagata Uelese, 23.
Both women pleaded guilty to the large-scale fraud this afternoon.
Prosecutor Ken Spinaze identified Touli as the principal offender.
He said she ``corrupted'' then-partner Anna Rajkowski, manipulating her into committing the fraud over two years and four months, between July 2007 and November 2009.
He said Ms Rajkowski started working at Kings Jewellers in 1998, becoming ''a most trusted employee'' and bookkeeper who had power over the financial records of the company, which at its height had 13 or 14 stores across Australia.
Mr Spinaze said Ms Rajkowski made more than 400 individual transactions, transferring money, sometimes daily, into a bank account held by Touli and to that of fellow employee Uelese.
He said Ms Rajkowski transferred a total of $38,000 into her own account; $1.163 million into Touli's bank account and $226,000 into an account belonging to Uelese.
``The acts were done to feed the gambling and drinking habit of Ms Touli,'' Mr Spinaze said.
He said Touli threatened Ms Rajkowski with suicide if she didn't go through with the frauds.
Mr Spinaze said Touli would withdraw money from Uelese's account when she reached the daily limits of her own account.
He tendered a victim impact statement from the CEO of Kings Jewellers to the court.
''That company now through this offending has had its reputation tarnished and will probably never again reach the heights it once did,'' Mr Spinaze said.
Soraya Ryan, for Touli, said her client was ''ashamed of the way she emotionally blackmailed and pressured her former partner''.
She said the money had been frittered away by Touli, who would spend her days at a Brisbane hotel playing the pokies because ''that made her happier''.
Ms Ryan detailed Touli's abusive childhood and said her client's father initially struggled to understand her homosexuality.
Lawyer Doug Wilson, for Uelese, said his client suffered a mild intellectual disability that made her vulnerable to manipulation.
He tendered references on Uesele's behalf from her current workplace, a Brisbane McDonald's restaurant.
Judge Botting sentenced Touli to nine years' jail. She will be eligible for parole in November 2015.
He ordered Uesele serve a two-year suspended prison sentence and two-and-a-half years probation.
Ms Rajkowski's matter was listed for trial on February 18 next year.
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