Image copyright GMP Image caption Farrimond also bought a house with cash from the fraud.
A building firm's finance boss siphoned off nearly £370,000 in company cash to fund a lavish lifestyle that included buying pedigree kittens, a court heard.
Matthew Farrimond, admitted 12 counts of fraud by pretending to pay the cash to charities and also one offence of money laundering.
Farrimond, 41, from Buckshaw Village, Chorley, was jailed for four years, at a Bolton Crown Court hearing.
Greater Manchester Police said Farrimond, who was finance manager at a company in Westhoughton, created false invoices to cover the payments into his own account.
His crimes were uncovered when two cheque stubs were found showing unplanned large payments to charities, the court heard.
Further investigation revealed that the cash had actually been paid into Farrimond's bank account. »