A 47 year old bank employee is expected to appear in the Musina Magistrate’s Court on 31 January 2019, after she was arrested by the Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation unit on Tuesday 29 January 2019, for allegedly defrauding a bank client of over a million rand.
The consultant who is employed by Standard bank in Musina, allegedly invaded a client’s bank account early this month and fraudulently transferred sums of money into different fictitious accounts, where her fellow syndicate members would then allegedly make withdrawals.
Hawks’ investigation thus far, has uncovered that the consultant allegedly authorized replicated bank cards with a valid pin code on the victim’s account to enable the looting to appear as if it was the client’s transactions.
The suspect is likely to face charges of fraud‚ money laundering and contraventions of Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (ECTA).
Additional arrests cannot be ruled out as investigations continue.
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