A 63-year-old woman who admitted to swindling the Eastern Cape Training Centre (ETC) in Gqeberha out of R13.4m while working as a creditor’s clerk will be sentenced later in August.
News24/file
A 63-year-old Eastern Cape woman pleaded guilty to over 900 counts of fraud.
Estelle Burgess, who was employed as a creditor s clerk, fraudulently substituted the banking details of creditors and suppliers with her own.
She had access to nine accounts from four different banks, and stole funds meant for creditors and suppliers.
A 63-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to over 900 counts of fraud, which, in over a decade, resulted in the siphoning of more than R13 million from the Eastern Cape Training Centre (ECT) in Port Elizabeth.
Estelle Burgess appeared in the Port Elizabeth Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Wednesday, where she pleaded guilty to 972 counts of fraud.
A 63-year-old clerk has pleaded guilty to 972 counts of fraud in the Port Elizabeth Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Wednesday.
Estelle Burgess swindled the grand sum of R13,4 million over a period of ten years while she worked as a creditor’s clerk at the Eastern Cape Training Centre (ECT) in Port Elizabeth between November 2004 to September 2014.
NPA Regional spokesperson Anelisa Ngcakani said Burgess’s duties had included the capturing of payments due to suppliers or creditors and the submission of captured payment lists for authorisation and payment.
Port Elizabeth fraudster used nine bank accounts
ECT used an online internet payment system to pay creditors and as the creditor’s clerk, Burgess assisted ECT’s financial manager to make these payments to the creditors.