Hazel Chawanda Matenga (43) from Sauerstown suburb in Bulawayo allegedly defrauded a Christian Non Governmental Organisation, Child Care Ministries of more than $80 000 by forging invoices and receipts.
She appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Mr Tinashe Tashaya facing 49 counts of fraud involving $80 839,54. She was remanded out of custody to March 29 on $100 bail pending trial at the Regional Court. She was ordered to reside at her given address, report at Sauerstown Police Station twice a week and was ordered to surrender her passport as part of her bail conditions.
Matenga was employed as the Country Co-ordinator for Child Care Ministries when she allegedly generated cash requisitions and fake invoices purported to have originated from DHL with inflated figures showing the costs incurred in sending mail to the United States of America. Prosecutor Miss Leanne Nkomo said after receiving money from the United States of America, Matenga would inflate figures before paying out the actual varying amounts to DHL. She would then pocket the remainder before presenting the fake receipts as proof of payment.
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