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A NETONE employee has been arrested for allegedly swindling the telecommunications company of ZWL$150 million.
Daniel Kalira, 39, who is employed as a cashier, was nabbed by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).
Kalira has since appeared in court and was remanded to June 27 on ZWL$20 000 bail.
ZACC confirmed the arrest in a statement on Thursday, saying Kalira used the money to buy cars.
Kalira allegedly orchestrated an airtime voucher scam for over two years.
“The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Daniel Kalira (39), a cashier at NetOne, after he allegedly stole approximately ZWL$150 000 000,00 from the mobile network services provider in an airtime voucher scam orchestrated over two years.
“Kalira used the money to buy several vehicles including a Toyota GD6 twin cab, three Mercedes Benz sedans and two BMW sedans.
“All the vehicles were recovered by ZACC investigators.
“It is alleged that from January 2020 to 23 May 2022, Kalira stole airtime from NetOne by falsifying his sales of airtime on the stock issue vouchers which he dispatched to NetOne sales agents.
“Investigations conducted by ZACC show that on the 25th of August 2021, the accused allegedly falsified issue voucher number 77064 where he indicated that he dispatched 17400 airtime cards of $100z.
“Instead, Kalira had allegedly dispatched 80300 cards valued at $100 each depriving Netone of $7 990 000,00.
“On the 26th of January 2022 Kalira allegedly falsified stock issue voucher number 77067 by indicating that he dispatched a total of 5917 cards of $100 each when he had dispatched 28416 cards depriving Netone of ZWL$2 250
“An audit to ascertain the actual amount stolen from NetOne is still ongoing.”
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter