A PERSONAL ASSISTANT (PA) to a prominent Zvishavane businessman, who is up for fraud, yesterday told the Zvishavane Magistrates’ Court that her boss had sexually abused her nine times resulting in her stealing from him.
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Precious Chikowora (33) and her accomplice Talita Phosa (28) appeared in court facing fraud charges for allegedly swindling her employer of $2 000 after conniving to alter company journals and receipt books.
Chikowora stunned the court when she alleged that her boss Dunlot Ndlovu had sexually abused her nine times and she defrauded his company because he was paying her very little.
She said despite alerting Ndlovu’s wife about the alleged abuse, it continued unabated.
“I only swindled $400 . . . I was abused nine times and he slept with me once and I told my mother, his wife and my uncle about the abuse, but none of them rescued me,” Chikowora said.
The State alleged that sometime in May, Ndlovu was at his driving school when he was approached by a client with $100 for driving lessons. Ndlovu advised the client to pay $150 so as to get an extra free lesson and secure free car hire for the official road test.
The client obliged and paid $100 before promising to return with the $50 balance.
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The next day, Ndlovu observed that the $100 had not been receipted and became curious. He collected books from accounts and audited them and discovered that Phosa and Chikowora would receive cash and write the actual amount received on the customer copy without carbon paper to duplicate the entry.
Thereafter, the two would put carbon paper on the fast copy and forge the amount before converting the balances to their own use.
The fraud was committed on 10 counts totalling $1 980 and nothing was recovered.
The two were remanded out of custody to September 12 for commencement of trial.
