Cairns primary school principal pleads guilty to credit card fraud

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

Cairns primary school principal pleads guilty to credit card fraud

A CAIRNS primary school principal will likely lose his job and face an early end to his career after being found liable by a court of fraudulent spending with a taxpayer-fundedCREDIT CARD. Wayne Garry Kirk, who is suspended from his position as principal of Parramatta State School, was fined $2000 after pleading guilty to dishonest use of a Department of EducationCREDIT CARD. Kirk, 48, admitted during a Cairns Magistrates Court sentencing yesterday to spending just under $1000 of the school’s money for personal reasons, including paying forFLIGHTSfor his family. The court heard he alsoBOOKED A FLIGHT to Brisbane to attend a job interview at a private school but paid the money back soon after. At sentencing, Kirk still owed $465 and was ordered to pay full restitution to the school, which he said he intended to do immediately. Police prosecutor Troy Sutton said theCREDIT CARD used by Kirk was meant to be used only for expenses of the school, which the department had listed as a “low socio-economic” institution. “It is an offence of dishonesty – an act whereby he has dishonestly applied money belonging to the ­Department of Education to his own use,” he said. “Future employers, in my […]

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