Durban man who defrauded eThekwini Municipality forced to pay back 200k
A Durban man's having to cough up more than 200 000, after he admitted defrauding eThekwini Municipality.
Robert Nkosi was handed a suspended sentence and has been ordered to pay back the money.
Hawks spokesperson, Katlego Mogale said Nkosi was one of six people arrested on charges of fraud and money laundering linked to the city's Expanded Public Works Programme.
Mogale says in 2018, he'd misrepresented himself and recruited people for employment saying he'd secured a tender with the municipality.
"He hired a taxi to take them to Pietermaritzburg to open bank accounts. In Pietermaritzburg, he convinced the alleged employees that he would have to take their bank cards and pin codes with him to produce the same to the Municipality.
"He also instructed all of them to use the same cell phone number as their contact number. Two weeks later, the Municipality paid the amount of R31 000.00 into each of the bank accounts as EPWP employees but he had only paid each of them R1 000.00 cash," she said.
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Nkosi joins his other co-accused Enoch Mthethwa who was sentenced last year and has had to re-pay R6 800 to the municipality while Dumisani Nxumalo was sentenced in 2019 and had to repay over R67 000 to the eThekwini Municipality.
The Hawks say the case has been postponed to next month, where the three remaining accused in the case will be sentenced.
