Cigarette rep free
The former cigarette sales representative of CIC Holdings, then Indo Atlantic, in Walvis Bay broke into tears after the Windhoek High Court found him not guilty.
Dawid Martin Bezuidenhout was acquitted on 12 charges of fraud and theft involving cigarette sales of around N$2.5 million and one of theft by false pretence. The judgment found no common purpose and found only his co-accused Venecia Ann Koning, an administrative clerk of the company who generating invoices, guilty on 18 fraud charges. Judge Alfred Siboleka in his verdict said Bezuidenhout could not be credibly connected to any wrongdoing but that Koning was credibly connected to the fraud by some witnesses and a software expert. “Key witnesses testified to her failure to acknowledge receipt of monies for the purposes of banking and this created serious material shortcomings in the credibility of her evidence. Her evidence denying any receipt of monies from Bezuidenhout created a reasonable doubt in favour of him,” Siboleka concluded. Between October 2006 and August 2007, Koning defrauded Indo Atlantic's Walvis Bay clients listed as Kuiseb Shop 4 Value, Bargosa Wholesalers, Walvis Bay Self Service, Parade Supermarket, Trust Market, Metro Walvis Bay, Metro Swakopmund, Shoprite U Save, Shoprite/Checkers Walvis Bay, Sentra Portuguese Market, Spar North Rand Henties and Shoprite Swakopmund.
FRED GOEIEMAN
Dawid Martin Bezuidenhout was acquitted on 12 charges of fraud and theft involving cigarette sales of around N$2.5 million and one of theft by false pretence. The judgment found no common purpose and found only his co-accused Venecia Ann Koning, an administrative clerk of the company who generating invoices, guilty on 18 fraud charges. Judge Alfred Siboleka in his verdict said Bezuidenhout could not be credibly connected to any wrongdoing but that Koning was credibly connected to the fraud by some witnesses and a software expert. “Key witnesses testified to her failure to acknowledge receipt of monies for the purposes of banking and this created serious material shortcomings in the credibility of her evidence. Her evidence denying any receipt of monies from Bezuidenhout created a reasonable doubt in favour of him,” Siboleka concluded. Between October 2006 and August 2007, Koning defrauded Indo Atlantic's Walvis Bay clients listed as Kuiseb Shop 4 Value, Bargosa Wholesalers, Walvis Bay Self Service, Parade Supermarket, Trust Market, Metro Walvis Bay, Metro Swakopmund, Shoprite U Save, Shoprite/Checkers Walvis Bay, Sentra Portuguese Market, Spar North Rand Henties and Shoprite Swakopmund.
FRED GOEIEMAN
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