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By Daphne Nyakanyanga
A cashier employed by State-owned telecommunications giant NetOne has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for allegedly stealing millions from the entity.
According to a press statement released by the corruption watchdog Thursday, Daniel Kalira (39) allegedly stole ZWL$150 000 000.00
from the mobile network services provider in an airtime voucher scam orchestrated over the past two years.
Kalira reportedly used the money to buy several vehicles including a Toyota GD6 twin cab, three Mercedes Benz sedans and two BMW sedans.
It is alleged that from January 2020 to 23 May 2022, Kalira stole airtime from NetOne by falsifying his sales of airtime on the stock issue vouchers which he dispatched to the company’s sales agents.
“Investigations conducted by ZACC show that on the 25th of August 2021, the accused allegedly falsified issue voucher number 77064 where he indicated that he dispatched 17 400 airtime cards of $100.
“Instead, Kalira had allegedly dispatched 80 300 cards valued at $100 eachdepriving Netone of ZWL$7 990 000,00.
“On the 26th of January 2022 Kalira allegedly falsified stock issue voucher number 77067 by indicating that he dispatched a total of 5 917 cards of $100 each when he had dispatched 28416 cards depriving Netone of ZWL$2 250 000,00,” reads the statement.
An audit to ascertain the actual amount stolen from NetOne is still ongoing and ZACC investigators recovered all the vehicles.
Kalira appeared in court and was remanded to 27 June 2022 on ZWL$20 000 bail. Nhau/Indaba
