A FORMER accountant at the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) who orchestrated fraudulent payments to his own company over a seven-month period has escaped imprisonment after a High Court judge ruled that restitution and rehabilitation outweighed the need for immediate custody.

Randall Sahadeo, 41, was fined a total of $50,000 after pleading guilty to one count of larceny and 13 counts of money laundering arising from a sustained breach of trust while he was employed at the association. The sentence was handed down on Tuesday by Justice Nalini Singh.

According to the agreed facts, Sahadeo was employed as an accountant at the LATT between October 2022 and August 2023.