HARARE, June 17 (NewsDay Live)- A 30-year-old fuel attendant at Total Energies Belgravia has appeared in court for defrauding his employer of US$15 000 through the company's prepaid fuel card system.
Tapiwa Agere was remanded in custody to allow for investigations into the matter.
The State alleges that sometime in February, Agere got access to the code used to load money into the prepaid Total Energies cards.
He allegedly created his own fuel card and registered it in the name of an imposter R Taguta.
The court heard that sometime between February 11 and June 11, Agere fraudulently loaded money into his card without remitting the money to Total Energies Service Station, represented in court by Ahmed Mohamed Iqbbal Sidat (31).
Agere allegedly then used the card to swipe for fuel at different stations, and converted it to cash.
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The court further heard that Agere allegedly also took the cash from the daily fuel sales and converted it to own use.
The alleged fraud was unearthed during a systems audit, leading to Agere's arrest.
Total value prejudiced is US$15 000, and nothing was recovered.