...to fund his wedding in Portugal and honeymoon in Thailand - but kept his wife in the dark about trial.
- Adeyinka Laryea-Adekimi showered his new wife with gifts and holidays
- Accounts clerk stole £138,000 from the Guardian's owners over 14 months
- Money was splurged on marrying fiancee in Portugal and their Thai honeymoon
- Jailing him this week Judge Nigel Peters told him: 'This was an act of pure greed'
An accounts clerk for the Guardian newspaper was jailed for 20 months today after siphoning off £138,000 to pay for his luxury wedding and honeymoon.
Adeyinka Laryea-Adekimi also showered his new wife with gifts using the stolen cash but she knew nothing about his campaign of fraud, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
Laryea-Adekimi, 34, was employed by the Guardian Media Group [GMG] - owners of the Guardian and Observer newspapers - to pay freelance journalists for their work.
But after getting the accounts job in August 2017 he started sending the cash to his own account instead.
The £138,000 he stole bankrolled his wedding in Portugal and the 5-star honeymoon that followed in Thailand.
He also bought gifts for his spouse, who his lawyer told court was unaware of the fraud, according to the Evening Standard.
