Gandhiâs great-granddaughter jailed for seven years for fraud
By Janine Moodley
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Durban: Ashish Lata Ramgobin, Mahatma Gandhi s great-granddaughter who is serving a seven-year sentence at Westville Prison for swindling a local businessman of R6.2 million, is not giving up.
The 52-year-old is applying for leave to appeal her conviction and sentence in the Durban High Court after the presiding magistrate at the Durban Specialised Commercial Crimes Court dismissed her application.
Ramgobin s mom, Ela Gandhi, who is a human rights activist and founder of the Gandhi Development Trust, said her daughter was positive and trying to stay strong. Since the magistrate refused her application, her lawyers are applying for leave to appeal to the high court. My daughter is strong, we stand behind her and are supporting her.
A former municipal finance official was sentenced to five years in jail for fraud after she made fictitious payments to suppliers that never carried out any work for the municipality.
News24 Wire The two councillors, aged 46 and 61, have been summoned to appear in the Vryheid Magistrate s Court on 28 June on corruption charges. Picture: iStock/ Oleksandr Filon
The Durban Specialised Commercial Crimes Court has jailed a former municipal worker for five years for defrauding the Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma municipality of R1 million.
According to police, Rosemary Zebani Mabi, the former deputy chief financial officer at the municipality in Creighton, colluded with the financial clerk between July and November 2013 and made fictitious payments to suppliers who had not conducted any work.
The money was actually for her personal use.
“The municipality suffered a total loss of R1 010 000.
Durban woman gets 8 years in jail for 235 counts of fraud
By Sakhiseni Nxumalo
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DURBAN - A 59-year-old woman was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment after she pleaded guilty to 235 counts of fraud totalling R2.7 million.
Charmaine Koch was sentenced on Tuesday at the Durban Specialised Commercial Crimes Court, said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in KwaZulu-Natal.
According to NPA KZN spokesperson Natasha Kara, Koch from Durban worked for Dundee-based company, Glendee Fertilizer and Lime CC.
Her job entailed administrative work, bookkeeping and uploading creditor payments with supporting invoices onto the company’s online banking profile, said Kara.
Kara said Koch would then prepare a schedule of the creditors that needed to be paid.