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A Port Elizabeth tax consultant has been sentenced to an effective 10 years imprisonment in the city's commercial crimes court.
Fifty-one year old Tertius Stiemie earlier pleaded guilty to charges of theft and money laundering involving just over a million rand.
He was sentenced 10 years for theft and 5 years for money laundering.
The latter charge was wholly suspended for 5 years.
In passing sentence, magistrate Louis Claasen, said that the court had to consider that Stiemie had stolen from people who had employed him and that he had been in a position of trust.
Claasen also outlined that gambling was pathological disease and that the addiction should not act as a mitigating factor or a departure from the minimum sentence.
