Angeline
Tatenda Khaka was handed over to Zimbabwean authorities last week.
Khaka is facing
charges of allegedly defrauding her employer, Acacia Junior School, where she
worked as a receptionist and administration assistant.
She initially
appeared in court on Saturday.
The complainant
is Acacia Junior School, which is being represented by Sympathy Mutamba, the
school accountant and administrator.
The court heard
that in January 2021, Khaka was employed by the school.
Her duties
included receiving school fees, receipting the money, making daily updates on
amount of cash receipted and releasing the money whenever the school needed to
make payments, among other things.
She was the
sole custodian of the vault keys and cash box keys.
It is alleged
that from January 2021 to February 2022, Khaka received money from different
parents on behalf of the school.
Khaka allegedly
converted part of the money for her own use.
The offence
came to light on February 15, 2022 when two men stormed the school demanding
that she should reimburse them the money they gave her to import cars for them.
She asked her
employers to grant her permission to be excused from work so as to solve her
issues.
The school
authorities ordered her and the men to resolve their issues outside their
premises and also granted Khaka the leave to go and resolve her issues.
Khaka went away
and never reported for work again.
Efforts to
contact her were in vain.
This prompted
the school authorities to become suspicious and they broke the vault and safe.
They noted that
the money, which was in the vault, had been stolen.
The school
authorities conducted an audit and filed a report with the police.
Khaka fled the
country and she was placed on the Interpol red notice.
On March 6,
this year, she went to the United States Embassy in Maputo, intending to get a
visa to fly to the United States.
She was then
arrested and was handed over to the Zimbabwean officials on Friday.
The total value
stolen is US$120,140 and nothing was recovered. H Metro
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