Former ZB Bank teller in court over $65 448 fraud charge

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A FORMER ZB Bank teller in Bulawayo appeared in court yesterday charged with defrauding her employer of $65 448.
(File Photo)
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A FORMER ZB Bank teller in Bulawayo appeared in court yesterday charged with defrauding her employer of $65 448.

BY SILAS NKALA

Yevai Azizi (28) of Entumbane in Bulawayo, however, denied the charge and applied for discharge citing lack of evidence when she appeared before Bulawayo senior magistrate Gladmore Mushove.

The court remanded the matter to May 28 for a ruling on her application for discharge.

Prosecutor Jeremiah Mutsindikwa told the court that sometime in January 2012, Azizi was employed by ZB Bank as a head teller. Her duties, among others, were to receive cash in treasury bundles from tellers at the end of each day and to check whether the cash bundles received corresponded with the attached label.

She would then seal off the cash bundles and deposit them in the bank vault.

It is the State case that between January and February 11 2012, Azizi received seven cash treasury bundles consisting of $20 notes amounting to $10 000.

Azizi allegedly opened the bundles and stole cash amounting to $65 448.

To cover up her tracks, she allegedly inserted $1 notes between the $20 notes and sealed the cash bundles again.

On February 11 2012, Azizi who was due for leave handed over the sealed bundles to Joanne Mudzimbgwa purporting that each bundle contained $10 000 made up of $20 notes.

On February 15 the same year, spot checks were conducted by internal auditors who discovered that the bundles in Lydia Hungwe’s possession had a shortfall of $65 448 and were bearing Azizi’s signature.

The bank suffered a prejudice of $65 448 and nothing was recovered.