A woman who pushed a Rotorua business to the brink of bankruptcy by stealing more than $300,000 from them has again tried to rip them off, less than a year after being released from jail.
Tania Joy Malcolm, 38, appeared in the Rotorua District Court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to two fraud charges - attempting to obtain by deception and obtaining by deception.
Malcolm, also known as Tania Whiteman, was released from jail on October 16, 2017 after being jailed for two years and nine months for obtaining by deception $326,101.26 from Pearce Flooring while she was the accounts and payroll administrator for the firm.
In 2016, as part of her sentence, she was also ordered to pay $150,000 in reparation to Pearce Flooring.
The new charges relate to offences on September 20 this year when she went to Bunnings in Rotorua and selected items, including lighting equipment, a staple gun and polythene, and asked the cashier to put them on the Pearce Flooring company account, a police summary of facts said.