Two-year suspended sentence for bank employee who fleeced $113,000 Activated false accounts using his company log-in Parents are selling house to pay off debts Handed two-year suspended sentence WHEN Westpac employee Ravinesh Singh needed money to feed his alcohol and gambling addictions, the cash was only a few clicks away. Using fake names, addresses and dates of birth, Singh applied online for nine different credit cards. Singh's parents are putting their home on the market so they can pay off their son's debts. When the cards arrived the home finance manager used his employee log-in to activate the cards. He then got unsuspecting staff members to create a PIN for cash withdrawals. From November 2011 Singh used the cards at various ATMs, usually pocketing $1000 in cash each transaction. By the time authorities charged him in November 2012, he had fleeced Westpac of more than $113,000. During his sentencing for nine counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception, solicitor Peter Murphy said that prior to the offences his client had "spiralled into depression, accompanied by gambling." "He let it (the gambling) take over his life and then committed these series of offences that fuelled his lifestyle," he told the Downing Centre Local Court. Singh also suffered from alcoholism and had been diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder, the court heard. Mr Murphy said Singh was trying to pay back the more than $113,000 owed to Westpac and was in the midst of selling his investment property to that end. Singh's parents, who supported him in court, were also putting their family home on the market and applying for a loan to help their son. In sentencing him, Magistrate William Pierce said the money involved was "significant" and that the offences involved dishonesty over a long period of time. "This is not a one-off impulsive event, although I appreciate that impulsivity is one of the things that you are afflicted with," he added. He gave Singh a two-year suspended sentence and ordered that he pay the money from his property sale to the bank.