DETECTIVES from the provincial police task team arrested five suspects aged between 27 and 44 for fraud totalling almost R400,000 last week.
The arrests emanate from fraudulent activities conducted against a company in Prospecton from July to September this year.
The arrested appeared in the Durban Commercial Court on Thursday, 18 October and were remanded in custody until Friday, 26 October for bail application.
“It is alleged that a company employee who was employed as a payroll administrator, changed the banking details of off-duty employees and put the details of her ‘beneficiaries’ for payment purposes. Salaries were paid into the bank accounts she had put on the off-duty employees names,” explained the KZN SAPS media centre’s Colonel Thembeka Mbele.
“She then 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 they did not work for.”
When the fraud was discovered, a case was opened at Isipingo police station. More than R380,000 was stolen through these transactions. More arrests are imminent as the police investigation continues.
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