A former security company supervisor who was convicted after trial for the theft of $100,000 from employers and breach of trust, appealed against his sentence of three years and six months jail in the Court of Appeal. His appeal was dismissed.

Abdul Rahman bin Haji Abdul Hamid instructed a crew commander and two crew members to collect $11.105 million of Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam's (BIBD) money from Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam (AMBD) to be distributed to several BIBD branches on July 2, 2014.

During their stop at BIBD Tanjong Bunut, the trio delivered one of the bags which contained $805,000. The branch expected $705,000 and rejecting the extra $100,000.

Abdul Rahman then instructed the trio over the phone to transport back the remaining amount to the office, which they did.

About a week later, one of the crewmembers arrived at Abdul Rahman's house and was given $67,500 to be equally distributed among the crew while Abdul Rahman held back $32,500.

The shortfall was discovered by BIBD on July 4, 2014, leading to internal investigations in the security company and investigations by the police.

The appellate court presided by Justice John Barry Mortimer, sitting with Justices Burrell and Seagroatt, considered the judge's basis for the sentence where Abdul Rahman enjoyed the trust of his employers who had promoted him to supervisor from security crewman, the post occupied by each of his codefendants.

Justice Seagroatt in delivering the judgement said that Abdul Rahman had compromised his team of crewmen by bringing them into his dishonest scheme.

"This was not a modest sum of money. Earlier decisions have made it clear that such breaches of trust inevitably call for immediate imprisonment.

"This appellant was entrusted with handling substantial sums of money for a security company in whom the public must have complete confidence," said Justice Seagroatt while dismissing the appeal.

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