He swindled charity of £200k ‘to fund gambling habit’

A charity worker who fleeced his employer out of more than £200,000 to fund his online gambling habit has been jailed for three years. Manjinder Virdi, 37, plundered his firm’s accounts while working as a finance officer with access to the bank and PayPal accounts. Virdi, who joined the charity in 2015, helped himself to £85,000 in just a month in 2018 and blew the cash on gambling websites, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. When another worker at the charity received…

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