Elia Kratky, a part-time manager and bookkeeper serving three dental clinics in British Columbia, pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud after investigators established that she had defrauded the clinics and nine dentists of a combined $436,535 between January 1, 1991 and March 31, 1995.
In sentencing reasons delivered in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Mr. Justice Curtis noted that the fraud was uncovered when one of the dental offices began experiencing significant financial difficulties that prompted an accounting review. Kratky received a conditional sentence. The case represents one of the larger documented multi-practice dental embezzlement matters in Canadian legal history.
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