Gambling travel agent’s fraud boosted her salary by £24k a month

A travel agent who fleeced a luxury holiday company out of nearly £500,000 to pay for her online gambling habit has been jailed for three years. Carolyn Braithwaite, 44, defrauded travel agents Arrivia Europe by paying faked customer refunds into 63 different bank accounts between October 2018 and February 2021. Passing sentence Judge Martin Edmunds KC told the South African: ‘You had been entrusted by your employers with a responsible position which you abused. ‘After a mistake had been made,…