Delta loses US$500 000 to accountant, co-workers

processing customer reconciliation.
Daveson (35) reportedly received payments for beverages amounting to US$521 825 from clients and shared the money with Kudakwashe Takafakare, Jane Machingura, Brenda Bobo, Joice Mugadza and Cassian Maramba, who is already on remand.
Takafakare, Machingura, Bobo and Mugadza are still at large.
Bobo — the company’s former clerk — is facing another charge of fraud after she allegedly swindled the beverage company of US$48 700.
Daveson of Bluffhill, Harare, was not asked to plead to fraud charges when she appeared before Harare magistrate Ms Anita Tshuma.
She was remanded to April 30 on US$500 bail coupled with stringent conditions.
The State alleges that there are instances where a customer makes payment into the soft drinks section bank account while he/she is a lagers section customer.
In such situations, the debtor’s clerks in the soft drinks section will originate a credit note and send it to lagers section for them to update the customer’s account.
Prosecutor Mr David Magwegwe alleges that on 28 occasions between May 2010 and March last year, Daveson and her accomplices received the said amount from lagers section customers as part of their outstanding balances.
Daveson, it is alleged, would use cash deposit slips for payments previously made by other customers purporting to have deposited the money into the lagers section bank account.
She would generate credit notes and send them via e-mail to lagers section misrepresenting that the customers had paid by bank transfer and instruct the section’s clerk to update the customer’s accounts by deducting their outstanding balances.
Daveson would record fictitious transactions in the accounting system before sharing the money with her accomplices.
Between May 21 and June 28, last year, Daveson received US$60 000 from Franscap and US$31 459 from Glen eagles on September 30.
On September 29, she received US$15 021 from Valico wholesalers and US$20 608 from Chop-chop wholesalers.
Using the same method, she received various amounts of money from different customers, which she shared with the others.
Mr Tererai Gunje of Gunje and Chasakara law firm is representing her.