LIMPOPO – A 47-year-old Musina bank employee was arrested by the Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation unit on Tuesday, for allegedly defrauding a bank client of over a million rand.
Spokesperson for the Hawks, Capt Matimba Maluleke said the accused, who is a consultant at a local bank, allegedly invaded the complainant’s bank account earlier this month and fraudulently transferred sums of money into different fictitious accounts, where her fellow syndicate members would then allegedly make withdrawals.
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“Hawks’ investigation have thus far uncovered that the consultant allegedly authorised replicated bank cards with a valid pin code on the victim’s account to enable the looting to appear as if it was the client’s transactions,” Maluleke explained.
The suspect appeared before the Musina Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, 31 January on charges of fraud‚ money laundering and contraventions of Electronic Communications and Transactions Act(ECTA) and was granted bail of R5 000 and the case was postponed to 5 March, he added.
Additional arrests cannot be ruled out as investigations continue, Maluleke concluded.
