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Cashier embezzled funds to reward gamer

A cashier was sentenced to seven years behind bars for using more than 4.9 million yuan ($731,340) worth of company funds to reward a male online game host in Wuhan. Yang, a cashier from a local company, said rewarding the game host helped ease her stress. Yang who was under investigation of spending a large amount of company funds to reward the host between August 2016 and August last year, surrendered to police after she was exposed. Yang's family later returned about 400,000 yuan to her company. The judge said Yang had committed embezzlement and misappropriated company funds.