A serial shoplifter has finally been handed down a hefty sentence. Image: Flickr
10-year sentence: Illovo employee jailed for R5.9 million fraud
This Illovo finance department employee has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars after stealing almost R6 million from the company in Durban.
A serial shoplifter has finally been handed down a hefty sentence. Image: Flickr
The KwaZulu-Natal National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has confirmed the sentencing of an Illovo Sugar employee for defrauding the company R5.9 million this week.
10-YEAR SENTENCE FOR ILLOVO EMPLOYEE
According to the NPA’s spokesperson Natasha Kara, Saloshni Naidoo, aged 41, stole the money over a three-year period.
Naidoo deposited the cash into three accounts, hers, a family member’s and another that belonged to a friend of hers. Naidoo was eventually caught after a colleague reported her to the firm.
“She would divert the stolen money into her bank account and those of a family member and a friend,” Kara said as quoted by TimesLIVE.
“She was caught after another employee reported her to management.”
Illovo did manage to recover R2 million from its former employee after she was found guilty of the fraud crime.
“The company was able to retrieve R2m from her bank account and the Asset Forfeiture Unit was granted an order to the value of R720,000.”
DURBAN WOMAN FOUND GUILTY OF R8 MILLION FRAUD
In related news, a former Grindrod South Africa employee was also found guilty of defrauding the company that paid her salary.
She was sentenced to an effective 12 years in jail for committing fraud against her employer in the Durban Specialised Commercial Crimes Court last week.
Yolandie Bartlett, 41, was sentenced to an effective 12 years imprisonment in the Durban Specialised Commercial Crimes Court after she was convicted of fraud amounting to R8 million.
