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News24 reports that the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Durban has sentenced a former Newcastle Municipality employee to eight years behind bars after she was found guilty of fraud surpassing R3.1 million.
Deidre Van Rooyen worked as a payroll supervisor overseeing the day-to-day running of the salaries office in the municipality. Her responsibility included the payment of salaries from the municipality bank account. After an in-depth investigation by the National Clean Audit Task Team of the Hawks into manipulation of the salary and bank system, Van Rooyen was arrested on 22 October 2020. Hawks spokesperson Colonel Philani Nkwalase indicated: "[She] received undue payments in excess of her ordinary salary. Further investigation linked her banking details to additional four salary profiles of previous employees who left the employment." Further investigations unearthed 88 fraudulent salaries created over eight years from February 2012 to June 2020, totalling an amount of more than R3 million. In May last year, van Rooyen pleaded guilty to all 88 counts of fraud. She forfeited her pension to the Newcastle Municipality and repaid the balance of the amount in full by other financial means. The Court sentenced Van Rooyen to ten years imprisonment, of which two years were suspended for a period of five years with stringent conditions.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisalee Solomons at News24
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