THE investigative work conducted by the police of the Uitenhage Cluster commercial crimes task team and forensic investigators yielded positive results when a bank teller of Uitenhage was arrested for fraud and theft.
According to police spokesperson sergeant Majola Nkohli, the 35-year-old woman was arrested at her house in Rosedale. This was after a month-long investigation allegedly linking her to several incidents of fraud and theft which occurred between August 2019 and May 2020.
“It is further alleged that the suspect targeted bank accounts of elderly people who mostly were pensioners,” said Sergeant Nkohli.
A case was opened after bank authorities became suspicious of improper transactions from several customers’ accounts.
The woman was granted R600 bail and will make her first court appearance on Wednesday, 1 July 2020 in Uitenhage. The suspect faces 25 counts of fraud and 6 counts of theft.
