25 years old An-nei Stumke sentenced to 8 years improvement for defrauding her employer of over R 6 million

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The National Prosecution Authority (NPA) has welcomed the sentencing of a 25 years old fraudster who have been stealing her employers money under the radar for three years.

The 25 years old An-nei Stumke’s fraudulent activities ended on December 23rd 2019 after having been redirecting her employer company’s, Nuwelande Agri Pty (Ltd), funds into her account few months after she was employed by the said employer.

She was arrested by the Specialized Commercial Crimes unit, The Hawks on the above mentioned date.

Stumke’s responsibilities were to prepare and provide the director of the company with Comma-Separated Values files (CSV) in an electronic format, together with full details of the payments to be made to creditors and employees. Included in the details was amounts due and bank account details for each creditor and employee.

That is when the director would then copy the CSV information from Stumke and paste it onto the company’s internet profile banking for bulk payments.

Stumke managed to add her personal bank account details in the list in between 24 June 2016 and 29 January 2019 defrauding the company of over R 6.62million.

She then reimbursed the company with R 3.5million following her arrest by the Hawks.

Included in the argument by the Senior State Prosecutor, Advocate Clint Jacobs the fact Stumke paid back some of the money is an admission of guilt but doesn’t mean that she should be let free because she failed to stop in the three years period.

She was sentenced to eight (8) years improvement by Magistrate Lionel Lindoor after finding her guilty on 71 counts of fraud.