THREE cashiers employed at a Bulawayo fast food outlet
allegedly defrauded their employer of US$11 000 before blowing the money on a
luxury car after forging sales receipts.
Sithembiso Manyathela (23), Tagwirei Kudzai (29) and
Yolanda Mudanhi (20) all employed at Pizza Hut in Bradfield suburb appeared
before Bulawayo magistrate Mr Franklin Mkhwananzi facing fraud charges.
They were remanded in custody to July 8 for trial. The prosecutor, Mr Nkathazo Dlodlo, said on June 16, Pizza
Hut’s company representative in Bulawayo, Ms Maybe Simbisai Nyamupachitu
received a phone call from her bosses at the head office in Harare indicating
to her that the amount of money she had deposited into the bank did not tally
with the figures on the submitted sales receipts.
The court heard that when Ms Nyamupachitu cross-checked the
sales receipts on her files, she discovered that the accused persons had
duplicated bank receipts from previous transactions and stolen cash.
“The accused persons duplicated the bank receipts from
previous transactions and stole cash from the till machines before replacing
them with old reprints which had the same amount,” said Mr Dlodlo.
A report was made to the police leading to the trio’s
arrest and subsequent recovery of only US$1 050 and a BMW which was bought
using part of the stolen money. Chronicle
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