Hawks arrest two Tsogo Sun employees on fraud charges

Hawks arrest two Tsogo Sun employees on fraud charges

Two Tsogo Sun employees accused of defrauding the company of R4-million are out on bail.


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Leeba Lesuthu and Jeffrey Moodley were arrested on Wednesday and charged with 259 counts of fraud.

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They appeared in the Durban Commercial Crimes Court.

Hawks KwaZulu-Natal spokesperson, Simphiwe Mhlongo says the two worked in the security and human resource sections of the company.

"They allegedly created ghost employees and they paid the salaries into their second accounts."

Mhlongo says it was established that the suspects allegedly withdrew the salaries.

The case returns to court in September.

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