A fraud and money laundering case against a Zambian national and his co-accused who allegedly stole R5 millions from a construction company has been postponed for consultations and trial.
The Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court postponed the case against Evan Mutale, 44, a Zambian national, and Dineo Precious Powane to August 31, 2023, for consultations and trial.
Powane is facing charges of money laundering, while Mutale is facing 49 charges of fraud and one of money laundering after his arrest by the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) Provincial Commercial Crime Unit on April 12, 2023, in Rustenburg.
Mutale was charged with stealing over R5 million from Jaira Constructions and Projects, where he was employed as an accountant, responsible for managing accounts, payroll and loading payments.
Powane was granted R3,000 bail, while Mutale is out on R10,000 bail.
It is alleged that between September 2019 and November 2020, Mutale fraudulently transferred money into an account belonging to Powane, who has no links to the company, but is known to him.
“These transactions were allegedly done under the pretence of paying a service provider for services rendered to the company,” National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) regional spokesperson Henry Mamothame said.
“In the process, he deceived his supervisor to make final authorisations for money to be transferred into Powane’s bank account,” Mamothame said.
Mamothame further added that investigations revealed that some of this money was later transferred to his bank account and, as such, contributed to the State charging him with money laundering.
The Director of Public Prosecutions in the North West, Dr Rachel Makhari, expressed her satisfaction with the progress made in bringing the accused to account for the charges against them.
We are everywhere now?
Is he congolese also ??
I am not a Mutale. How can you say “we” which would include me?
We will evenyually beat you Nigeria
We are honest and hardworking where I come from. You will never see us in this kind of news
Look at the date this crime happened. Note which party was in power in zambia at the time. Always remember that pf sent alot of thugs abroad during their time. Can the authorities deal with that pf cadre.
I suspect you are Batute Imenda masquerading.
Well……………
You’re getting out of topic u see,but today you’re crying u can’t even put food on table
Its not about parties but the culture that’s engulfed us.
Zambians do not have one universal culture. Do not embroil the rest of us in this sort of behaviour.
Zambians will soon be labeled as criminals worldwide…..trying hard to outdo Nigerians
It is sad that these same people will soil the names of some of us who come from places were we do not do such things
Before you make a judgement on this story, you need to know that Zambia has a good name abroad, and there are people who want to use the Zambian passport just to look clean and when they land in trouble, the Zambian name gets tarnished. I doubt if the accused is Zambian.
How did he know what Zambian passport to steal so that his name could coincide with that of many criminals in the Zambian penal system itself? What was the name of the person who corruptly and criminally sold the passport?
Whether he’s Zambian or not The Name of Zambia has been thrown out there and it will linger whether we like it or not
The problem is that I am a Zambian, and I am being tarnished by these people
Maybe it is the way of getting paid after some politician of yesteryears made handouts without signing.
Of course wrong way.
We are everywhere. Up on the Mafia scale; fake gold scams, R5 Million laundering, human trafficking etc. One of us even impregnanted his daughter in Sweden. And I suspect most of our qualifications are cooked up
You are not every Zambian though. The problem is that what you do is going be attributed to a whole country in which people from honest regions are tarnished by your thievery
That’s what you get when you employee a person without conducting background check up.
You’re getting out of topic u see, but today you’re crying u can’t even put food on table;
Ask yo self why