For seven years, Francis Mella regularly stole from the company he was tasked with running financially.
Between 2008 and 2014, Mella transferred $2.7 million from Dave’s Diesel Repair — in Parkland County, west of Edmonton — to his own accounts, all the while pretending to be a close friend of the owner.
“I trusted the guy with everything,” Dave Szybunka told CBC News. “I was guilty of giving him a position of authority. Because I trusted him.”
In October, Mella, 61, was found guilty of fraud and theft in Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench. Last week, Justice Robert Graesser sentenced Mella to 10 years in
