A FINANCE attaché at Tanzania’s High Commission in Maputo, Mozambique, Joyce Moshi, appeared before Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday facing nine counts, including money laundering and obtaining over 300m/- by false pretences.
Before Principal Resident Magistrate
Huruma Shaidi, the accused denied the charges, which also include
forgery, uttering false documents and stealing by person in public
service. She was remanded until October 30 when the case will be
mentioned pending further investigations.
State Attorney Simon Wankyo, for the
prosecution, told the court that the accused committed the offences
between October 25, 2016 and April 12, 2017 at the High Commission of
the United Republic of Tanzania offices and Bank Millennium BIM Julius
Nyerere Branch Maputo in the city of Maputo.
It is alleged that within the same
period at the High Commission of United Republic of Tanzania offices
within the city in Mozambique, with intent to defraud, Joyce forged
three letters dated October 25, 2016, Feb ruary 10, 2017 and April 12,
2017.
According to the prosecution, the
accused purported to show that the High Commission of United Republic of
Tanzania in Mozambique has directed Bank Millennium BIM, Maputo to
transfer 10,000 US dollars, 100,000 US dollars and 40,000 US dollars,
respectively, from a certain account to that of Joyce.
The prosecution told the court that
within the same period at the Bank Milleninum BIM-Julius Nyerere Branch
Maputo in the city of Maputo, knowingly and fraudulently, the accused
uttered the letters with similar purposes of transferring the said
amount, totaling 150,000 US dollars.
It is further alleged that on diverse
dates between October 25, 2016 and April 12, 2017 at the High Commis
sion offices and the Bank, being a person employed in the Public
Service, Joyce fraudulently stole the said money, the property of the
United Republic of Tanzania.
Within the same period and places, with
intent to defraud, the High Commission’s senior official obtained from
her employer 150,000 US dollars by falsely pretending to have been
instructed to withdraw the amount from a certain account to her account,
while she believed it was illegal.
The court head further that between
October 25, 2016 and April 12, 2017 at the High Commission offices and
the Bank in Maputo City, the accused committed an offence of money
laundering by acquiring the money, while knowing that the amount was
proceeds of a predicate offence of forgery.
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