{"id":919718,"date":"2022-01-26T13:10:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/company-loses-r2-million-after-fraudster-creates-56-ghost-employees-pockets-cash\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:10:23","slug":"company-loses-r2-million-after-fraudster-creates-56-ghost-employees-pockets-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/company-loses-r2-million-after-fraudster-creates-56-ghost-employees-pockets-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Company loses R2 million after fraudster creates 56 \u2019ghost employees\u2019, pockets cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/edf44132-6d51-54f8-8a51-13124e27f51e&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x28&#038;resize=523x294.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Pretoria &#8211; A 49-year-old man is set to appear before the Potchefstroom Magistrate\u2019s Court on charges of fraud and money laundering, following his arrest in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) Colonel Katlego Mogale said the suspect was arrested in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt is reported that between 2019 and 2020, the suspect \u2013 who was employed as general manager by a security company \u2013 approached area supervisors working around North West to start recruiting \u2019ghost employees\u2019,\u201d said Mogale.<\/p>\n<p>The supervisors allegedly recruited about 56 \u201cghost employees\u201d, who were paid about R5 000 per month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fictitious employees reportedly received monthly salaries, in their fake bank accounts, which were later reversed by the suspect and deposited into his personal account,\u201d said Mogale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect allegedly received undue payments of about R2.1 million, over a period of 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October, a 54-year-old man appeared in the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court, charged with fraud to the value of about R2.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged that Christiaan Frederick van Wyk created fraudulent payment transactions between 2012 and 2018, when he was working at a Melrose-based company, PEG Holdings, as a secretary and financial manager,\u201d Gauteng Hawks spokesperson Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>She said the Hawks\u2019 serious commercial crime investigation team in Johannesburg received the matter for investigation, into the allegations against Van Wyk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther investigations revealed that Van Wyk transferred about R2.2 million, in different transactions, into his bank accounts during the period,\u201d said Mulamu.<\/p>\n<p>A warrant of arrest was issued for Van Wyk\u2019s apprehension, and he handed himself over to authorities at the Johannesburg Hawks\u2019 office, where he was formally charged with fraud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He appeared in court on the same day and was granted R10 000 bail.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-2e9bb687851bd3512edc652ee9201035\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria &#8211; A 49-year-old man is set to appear before the Potchefstroom Magistrate\u2019s Court on charges of fraud and money laundering, following his arrest in the early hours of this morning. Spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) Colonel Katlego Mogale said the suspect was arrested in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning. \u201cIt is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}