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Rainbow Hotels loses $41 846 to employees
02 May 2015 at 17:53hrs | Views
AN FBC bank employee has allegedly connived with the employee at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo to defraud the hospitality institution of over $41 800.
This was heard by the Bulawayo magistrate Merilyn Mutshina when Oscar Zindi (30) of Lobengula West in Bulawayo who was employed by FBC bank as desk information officer appeared before her charged with fraud while his alleged accomplice Fundie Mageza who was employed by Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo is still on the run.
He was not asked to plead to the charge and the magistrate further remanded him.
The court heard that in this case Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo is represented by Samson Chitsa of Cold Comfort in Harare and sometime in February 2014 Zindi connived with Mageza and they hatched a plan to defraud Rainbow Hotels.
On different 26 dates between February 7 and May 23, 2014 Zindi stamped fake deposit slips inscribed with the money figures which amounted to $1 846 purporting as if he had credited the amounts. They later allegedly took the money and diverted to own uses. The offence was discovered when the auditors from Harare went to the bank and asked for bank statements. FBC bank confirmed that the stamp that was used by Zindi on the slips was the bank's and Zindi had no authority to collect money. It is alleged that through his actions the Hotel suffered an actual prejudice of $41 846.
This led to Zindi's arrest while his alleged accomplice Mageza is still at large.
This was heard by the Bulawayo magistrate Merilyn Mutshina when Oscar Zindi (30) of Lobengula West in Bulawayo who was employed by FBC bank as desk information officer appeared before her charged with fraud while his alleged accomplice Fundie Mageza who was employed by Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo is still on the run.
He was not asked to plead to the charge and the magistrate further remanded him.
On different 26 dates between February 7 and May 23, 2014 Zindi stamped fake deposit slips inscribed with the money figures which amounted to $1 846 purporting as if he had credited the amounts. They later allegedly took the money and diverted to own uses. The offence was discovered when the auditors from Harare went to the bank and asked for bank statements. FBC bank confirmed that the stamp that was used by Zindi on the slips was the bank's and Zindi had no authority to collect money. It is alleged that through his actions the Hotel suffered an actual prejudice of $41 846.
This led to Zindi's arrest while his alleged accomplice Mageza is still at large.
Source - Online
