Former Crown Casino DJ and aspiring events promoter Navishta Desilva had it all lined up – falsify invoices at his employer, bring high-profile Sri Lankan cricketers out to play in Melbourne, and get married to his fiancee.
The court heard Desilva, also known as Demuni Navishta De Silva, falsified tax invoices and purchase orders for his Mulgrave employer OmniVision, an electronic surveillance and security company specialising in CCTV, that were purportedly from a legitimate supplier called CCTV Masters. Other money was then sent to his then-fiancee before their pending wedding was called off after his arrest.Stokes said that at the time of the offending Desilva was working as a warehouse assistant at the Mulgrave headquarters of OmniVision, where he was responsible for completing purchase orders and replenishing stock.
Of the money fraudulently obtained, almost $190,000 was deposited into Desilva’s accounts, with $37,000 paid to Dilshan and more than $5500 to Thirimanne. Only one of the two planned cricket games ever eventuated.Defence barrister Sam Norton said his client was born and raised in Sri Lanka, where he played junior cricket for the same side as Kumar Sangakkara.
He said his client had since borrowed money from friends and family to help repay the money he’d taken and now working at Toyota during the day and a labour-hire company at night to repay his debts.“There are people who are expecting events to go ahead, excited by prospects of international cricket players coming to suburban events ... so players at that club could rub shoulders with former international players,” Norton said.“He over-committed.
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