Bookkeeper faces 139 counts of fraud

File Photo: Clyde Robinson

File Photo: Clyde Robinson

Published Sep 15, 2015

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Cape Town - A bookkeeper formerly in the employ of a Bloubergstrand trucking company, who allegedly channelled money meant for the South African Revenue Services (SARS) into her own bank account, appeared in a court in Cape Town on Tuesday.

Anna Maree Olivier appeared briefly in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Bellville, before magistrate Sabrina Sonnenberg.

She was warned to appear in court again on October 14.

According to the charge sheet, she was engaged as bookkeeper by the company Carol Truck (Pty) Ltd., and her duties included the payment of the company’s creditors, including tax payments to the SARS.

Prosecutor Simone Liedeman alleges that Olivier fraudulently diverted 139 tax payments amounting to R2,355,151 into her own bank account, in the five years from January 2004 to May 2009.

It is alleged that she did so under the false pretence that her own bank account number was in fact that of the SARS.

The State also alleges that Olivier provided Carol Truck with financial advice, whilst not an authorised financial services provider, as she had to be in terms of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAISA).

She faces 139 counts of tax fraud, and one involving the alleged violation of the FAISA.

According to the charge sheet, the penalty for the violation of the FAISA is a fine not exceeding R1,000,000, or a prison sentence not exceeding 10 years, or both.

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