Convicted Bookkeeper ordered to clean the police station

Mluleki Mrwebi
13 July 2013

The Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Friday ruled that a bookkeeper convicted of fraud must clean the Kuils River police station as part of his punishment.

Wayne du Toit had pleaded guilty to 53 counts of fraud and one of money-laundering, before magistrate Sabrina Sonnenberg, and was sentenced under a plea bargain agreement with prosecutor Tracey Bellelie.

Du Toit was also sentenced to three years' house arrest for devising a complex system involving the SA Revenue Service to defraud his two employers.

He also received a five-year prison sentence, which was suspended for five years on condition he repays the defrauded money within a stipulated period.

According to the plea-bargain document, Du Toit had manipulated his employers’ system to make unauthorised payments from the bank accounts of both his employers into his own personal income tax account at Sars.