A UK-based System Integrator Chillblast product manager stole nearly £200,000 worth of PC hardware over several years and then flogged it on Gumtree and eBay.
Matthew Hudson (pictured) and his chum Daniel Key sold up to thirty laptops, ten desktop systems, 50 graphics cards, and shedloads of storage drives and monitors.
Prosecutor Tom Nicholson told Bournemouth Crown Court how Hudson exploited the trust of his colleagues due to his position and access to inventory checklists and customer returns. He has been doing it from 2013 until 2019. Daniel Key helped Hudson sell these stolen goods and split the profits from their sales.
Hudson was good at hiding his tracks on paper by manipulating stock levels, stealing items from custom returns, and making new items in the inventory unavailable by showing items as returned and credited.
