Former bank employee denies links to fraud syndicate
A former FNB employee and suspected member of a syndicate who allegedly worked with fellow employees to swindle a German national out of millions of investment money has admitted that he accessed the bank account details of clients on several occasions without recording the reasons why.
Testifying in the Gqeberha commercial crimes court on Wednesday, Mzwakhe Kumalo, 32, admitted that while employed in the debt protection plan department at FNB in Johannesburg, he would regularly access accounts on behalf of others without noting it on the bank’s internal system. ..
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