DETECTIVES from the Provincial Task Team arrested five suspects aged between 27 and 44 for fraud. They appeared in the Durban Commercial Court on 18 October and are remanded in custody until 26 October when the bail application will be heard. The arrests emanate from fraudulent activities that were conducted against a company in Prospecton from July to September.
It is alleged that a company employee who was employed as a payroll administrator, changed the banking details of off-duty employees and put in the details of her ‘beneficiaries’ for payment purposes. Salaries were paid into the bank accounts, she had allocated under the names of off-duty employees.
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She managed to fraudulently benefit from the company at the expense of others. Her relatives also benefitted by receiving salaries for more than two months from a company that they did not work for.
When the fraud was discovered, a case was opened at the Isipingo police station. More than R380,000 was stolen through these transactions. More arrests are imminent as the police investigation is continuing.
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