A mother who lived a lavish lifestyle as part of her ex-husband s $270,000 Bunnings fraud has moved on from her jailed former lover and fallen for a personal trainer.
Tania Leonard, 41, found a new flame after she and her ex-husband Andrew Alasdair Ryan, 47, were exposed for swindling the warehouse chain.
The couple were both convicted of fraud, stealing and possessing tainted property charges at Brisbane s District Court last Wednesday.
Leonard and Ryan used their ill-gotten gains to live in a mansion in Tamborine, Queensland, also buying their daughter a $50,000 equestrian horse by scamming two friends, the court heard.
Ryan - the mastermind of a three-year plot which on-sold or got a cash refund for stolen Bunnings goods - was jailed but Leonard walked free for playing a lesser role.
Couple sentenced after defrauding Bunnings of $270,000 in order to live large
Queensland pair rented a five bedroom ranch in Tamborine, on the Scenic Rim
Also bought their daughters a showhorse named Daisy Lane Huntsman
Acquaintances learned something was amiss when horse was auctioned off
Auction house said it was selling prized horse under the Proceeds of Crime Act
Andrew Alasdair Ryan, 47, and his now ex-wife Tania Leonard, 41, used proceeds from a Bunnings scam to fund their lifestyles. A husband and wife who defrauded Bunnings out of more than $270,000 used the cash to fund a lavish lifestyle that included living on an acreage mansion in Tamborine with horses for their two daughters. Andrew Alasdair Ryan, 47, and his now ex-wife Tania Leonard, 41, pleaded guilty in the Brisbane District Court on Wednesday over the operation in which they would steal items from Bunnings and either return them for cash refunds or sell the tainted property. The pair also swindled two friends out of $25,000 and used the money to buy a show horse called Daisy Lane Huntsman for $50,000.
A couple spent up big on a lavish lifestyle that included a sprawling rural mansion and show horses after defrauding Bunnings out of $270,000, a court has heard.
Andrew Alasdair Ryan and Tania Leonard appeared before Brisbane District Court last Wednesday where they were convicted of fraud, stealing and possessing a horse purchased with proceeds of crime after pleading guilty, the Courier Mail reported.
The court heard Ryan, 47, and his now ex-wife Leonard, 41, ran a scheme where products would be stolen from Bunnings and then returned for a cash refund or sold on to friends and through online sites such as Gumtree.
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