Five people have appeared in the Durban Commercial Crimes Court for allegedly committing payroll fraud of more than R380,000 (US$26,519).
According to The Citizen, South African Police Services spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele said the arrests related to fraudulent activities against a company in the industrial area of Prospecton from July to September 2018.
“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,” he said.
Mbele told the South Coast Sun that salaries were paid into bank accounts that the payroll administrator had created in the off-duty employees names. “Her relatives also benefited by receiving salaries for more than two months from a company that they did not work for,” he explained.
Police said more arrests were imminent.
Emma Woollacott is a freelance business journalist. Her work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the Guardian, the Times, Forbes and the BBC.
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Five people have appeared in the Durban Commercial Crimes Court for allegedly committing payroll fraud of more than R380,000 (US$26,519).
According to The Citizen, South African Police Services spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele said the arrests related to fraudulent activities against a company in the industrial area of Prospecton from July to September 2018.
“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,” he said.
Mbele told the South Coast Sun that salaries were paid into bank accounts that the payroll administrator had created in the off-duty employees names. “Her relatives also benefited by receiving salaries for more than two months from a company that they did not work for,” he explained.
Police said more arrests were imminent.
Emma Woollacott is a freelance business journalist. Her work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the Guardian, the Times, Forbes and the BBC.
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