DISGRACED former charity boss Dennis Grant has been ordered to pay back more than a quarter of a million.
The former chief executive of the Cotswold Water Park Society was ordered yesterday to repay £318,949.71p to the organisation.
And he has been warned that his sentence could be extended if he fails to give the money back.
It comes 18 months after Grant, of Upper Tadmarton near Banbury in Oxfordshire, was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to six charges of fraud by false representation.
Grant was put behind bars in July 2011 after admitting to the fraud.
The 64-year-old was accused of having money paid into his own bank accounts rather than those of the Water Park.
The confiscation order was issued at Gloucester Crown Court by Judge William Hart.
He told Grant that he had 12 months to find the money.
And if he does not repay the cash, he will have an extra 42 months added to his sentence – leaving him behind bars for another three-and-a-half years. Grant was jailed last year after admitting plundering £660,792 from the Water Park.
He had used some of his ill-gotten gains to buy three plots of land in Northern Cyprus and luxury cars, including an Aston Martin Vantage.
He conned the charity for two years before being exposed by then financial controller Tasha Flaherty.
Trust managing director Matthew Millett said: "The Trust anticipated only a small proportion of the judgement sum would be recovered. It is hoped significant progress can be made in early 2013."
Grant's frauds went on undetected for two-and-a-half years until one of his staff, Ms Flaherty, realised what was going on and confronted him about a £100,000 payment which had to be refunded.
He tried to put the 38- year-old operations director off the scent, but she badgered him for three days until he confessed what he had done.
Grant, who earned £56,000 a year as chief executive, had simply set up a bank account at NatWest in the name of the Cotswold Water Park Society and started paying cheques into it.
