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Ex-manager up for fraud
14 Aug 2015 at 14:49hrs | Views
A FORMER steel manager for Major Family Savings (MFS) is alleged to have defrauded his employer of $140.
Chengetai Chomba appeared before Mutare magistrate, Miss Venencia Mugota last Wednesday and pleaded not guilty.
The case was adjourned to August 20 for trial.
Manica Post reported that Chomba allegedly converted $140 from the $300 that had been given to him by Kelvin Phiri a former debtor who is now an employee at MFS to settle his dues.
Phiri was supposed to clear his arrears which were overdue and Maria Dumbura did the accounts of the $300 payment without physically checking the proof of payment.
Chomba who was being represented by Mr Innocent Mandikate of Mugadza and Chinzamba Legal Practitioners denied the charges, saying that he was only given $160.
He said Phiri with the help of Dumbura who are his former workmates were trying to use his name to cover their tracks.
Phiri had an account for six months where he would buy materials on credit from the steel departments and he used to pay for his debts through Chomba who was the department manager at that time.
Phiri said he gave $300 to Chomba and did a follow up on the following day where Dumbura acknowledged that his account had been settled.
Dumbura claimed that Chomba called her while she was at work and told her that he had paid $300 for Phiri and gave her the receipt number 3156, which she went on to make a journal with at the end of that month.
I proceeded to make a journal with that receipt number without getting hold of the receipt because I trusted Chomba who was my manager at that time. I was then called in December by my immediate supervisor, Dorcas Mumba, who asked me to write a report since the journal I made was contrasting with the headquarters' journal. Phiri's account was closed in December following his employment at MFS.
The account was reopened in April for further investigations and that is when it was discovered that Dumbura had made a transaction of a non-existing $300.
Chomba had already resigned from the company.
Chengetai Chomba appeared before Mutare magistrate, Miss Venencia Mugota last Wednesday and pleaded not guilty.
The case was adjourned to August 20 for trial.
Manica Post reported that Chomba allegedly converted $140 from the $300 that had been given to him by Kelvin Phiri a former debtor who is now an employee at MFS to settle his dues.
Phiri was supposed to clear his arrears which were overdue and Maria Dumbura did the accounts of the $300 payment without physically checking the proof of payment.
Chomba who was being represented by Mr Innocent Mandikate of Mugadza and Chinzamba Legal Practitioners denied the charges, saying that he was only given $160.
He said Phiri with the help of Dumbura who are his former workmates were trying to use his name to cover their tracks.
Phiri had an account for six months where he would buy materials on credit from the steel departments and he used to pay for his debts through Chomba who was the department manager at that time.
Phiri said he gave $300 to Chomba and did a follow up on the following day where Dumbura acknowledged that his account had been settled.
Dumbura claimed that Chomba called her while she was at work and told her that he had paid $300 for Phiri and gave her the receipt number 3156, which she went on to make a journal with at the end of that month.
I proceeded to make a journal with that receipt number without getting hold of the receipt because I trusted Chomba who was my manager at that time. I was then called in December by my immediate supervisor, Dorcas Mumba, who asked me to write a report since the journal I made was contrasting with the headquarters' journal. Phiri's account was closed in December following his employment at MFS.
The account was reopened in April for further investigations and that is when it was discovered that Dumbura had made a transaction of a non-existing $300.
Chomba had already resigned from the company.
Source - Manicapost
