According to the investigating officer, Constable Gudani Tshimange, Thiren Moodliar (40) was sentenced on 1 April by the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court for crimes he committed in 2012.
Moodliar was sentenced to 1 000 hours of periodical imprisonment (weekend imprisonment), three years correctional supervision, and was given a three-year jail sentence suspended for five years.
Tshimange noted that other than the periodical imprisonment, due to the suspended sentence, Moodliar would not have to serve full prison time unless he was caught committing fraud again in the next five years.
In his capacity as an employee of a local reality company, Moodliar managed rent and other payments between tenants and property owners.
According to the information in Moodliar’s police docket, he had allegedly defrauded the company of just under half a million rand.
This, however, does not appear to be the first time that Moodliar has been convicted of a financial crime.
According to IOL News, in 2005 Thiren Moodliar, then 29 years old appeared before the Durban commercial crime court for spending more than R1.5 million of his then-employer’s money at casinos. It was reported that Moodliar had a gambling problem and was handed a relatively lenient sentence for his crime. He was fined R100 000 or three years imprisonment, and sentenced to a further fine of R200 000 or six years which was suspended for five years.
The magistrate at the time also ordered Moodliar to attend Gamblers Anonymous.
The Rosebank Killarney Gazette was unable to confirm unequivocally whether the Thiren Moodliar sentenced in Johannesburg is the same person who was sentenced in Durban 10 years ago.
However, Sergeant Bongi Mdletshe of Rosebank Police Station confirmed that Moodliar’s police docket contained records of previous arrests. More specifically, Mdletshe noted that Moodliar had been arrested for fraud at Durban Central Police Station in 2005.
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