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A former Canada Revenue Agency auditor who pocketed $100,000 in bribes has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay a fine for the same amount.

Nicola Iammarrone, 59, was sentenced at the Montreal courthouse Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty to two counts of bribery while working for the agency between 2002 and 2008.

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“When the reputation of an institution such as the CRA is tarnished by corruption within its ranks,” Quebec Court Judge Lori Renée Weitzman wrote in her decision, “the loss suffered by society as a whole is not only financial but involves the corrosion of public confidence in our government institutions.”

Iammarrone worked for the CRA for 20 years with no disciplinary issues to his name. The charges against him stem from a Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation launched following an internal search conducted at the agency in 2009.

Iammarrone “made a reasoned decision to cheat the system,” Weitzman ruled, in accepting bribes from two companies: Technospec and Les Industries Tulyons.