Airline employee nabbed for fraud
A man alleged to have attempted to illegally divert N$1.1 million meant for a payment by Air Namibia to the Namibia Airports Company (NAC) made a brief appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court on Friday
Penna Munyunda, an employee of the airline, appeared calm and collected in court on Friday. He was not asked to plead on the charges of fraud and attempted theft against him and the case was postponed to Wednesday for a formal bail application.
It is alleged that the attempted theft was squashed by Standard Bank when it alerted the airline that an illegal diversion of money meant as payment to NAC had been requested by staff in its finance department.
The transfer was said to have been done and signed off properly when a suspicious request was made to the bank for the money to be transferred to a different bank account.
Munyunda was identified as the culprit after the internal audit department of the airline investigated after the alert by the bank. Computers were confiscated for this purpose.
He was later arrested by the police.
Magistrate Vanessa Stanley postponed the case to 11 October for a formal bail application. The State's prosecution was led by Rowan van Wyk while lawyer Christiaan Nambahu appeared for Munyunda.
FRED GOEIEMAN
Penna Munyunda, an employee of the airline, appeared calm and collected in court on Friday. He was not asked to plead on the charges of fraud and attempted theft against him and the case was postponed to Wednesday for a formal bail application.
It is alleged that the attempted theft was squashed by Standard Bank when it alerted the airline that an illegal diversion of money meant as payment to NAC had been requested by staff in its finance department.
The transfer was said to have been done and signed off properly when a suspicious request was made to the bank for the money to be transferred to a different bank account.
Munyunda was identified as the culprit after the internal audit department of the airline investigated after the alert by the bank. Computers were confiscated for this purpose.
He was later arrested by the police.
Magistrate Vanessa Stanley postponed the case to 11 October for a formal bail application. The State's prosecution was led by Rowan van Wyk while lawyer Christiaan Nambahu appeared for Munyunda.
FRED GOEIEMAN
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