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IOL reports that the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Tuesday released a couple and an accomplice on bail of R5,000 each after they were accused of defrauding a labour broking company of almost R2.3 million.
Police said that between 2017 and December 2020, the alleged fraudster, Fancola Malekana, a former contract manager at the Benoni based labour brokerage Workforce, altered the banking details of former clients’ employees and transferred the monthly salaries. Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu said further investigations revealed that Malekana equally shared the fraudulent proceeds with his co-accused, Mlungisi Sakala, who was employed by Workforce's client National Rubber Matmin as a human resource manager during the period. “Workforce conducted an internal headcount and discovered a number of employees who had since resigned but were still receiving monthly payments. The company suffered a loss of approximately R2.3 million within three years on ghost employees’ salaries,” Mulamu advised. She added that further investigations revealed that more ghost employees were allegedly created and their salaries were reportedly transferred into the account of Sakala’s wife, Charlotte Sakala. The case was postponed to 29 April.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Brenda Masilela at IOL
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