A 24-YEAR-OLD student nurse at Gweru Provincial Hospital who was last week convicted of theft after he squandered $54 000 that was mistakenly deposited into his CABS account will be sentenced this Friday.
BY STEPHEN CHADENGA
Kelvin Kutadza, a final-year student at the hospital withdrew the money that was deposited between July and October last year and converted it to his own use. Kutadza bought a house in Mkoba high-density suburb and two vehicles with the money.
Provincial magistrate, Pathekile Msipa said she would deliver sentence this Friday.
The State’s case was that between July and October last year, CABS was upgrading its information technology system, resulting in functional challenges in updating accounts balances.
The court heard that each time a client transferred money from the bank into an EcoCash account or any other bank account using the electronic banking system, the system failed to record the correct figures.
After discovering the bank system failure, Kutadza used his mobile phone between July 5 to September 20 last year to transfer various sums of money from CABS to his EcoCash account and to his MBCA savings account, prejudicing CABS of $54 052,34.
The accused went on to use the money to purchase a house in Mkoba 19 suburb for $32 460 and two non-runner vehicles for $5 500 and $5 000 respectively. Only $2 384,12 was recovered.
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