Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:55:48 +0000 By CHARLES MUSONDA A TRAVEL consultant has been jailed two years for stealing thousands of Kwacha and United States dollars belonging to her employer, Gemistar Travel and Tours. High Court Registrar Aridah Chulu, sitting as chief resident magistrate, jailed Deborah Chifuka, 32, after finding her guilty on 92 counts of fraudulent false accounting and theft by servant.. Ms. Chulu found that after passengers paid cash for air tickets, Chifuka pocketed the money and generated invoices indicating that Standard Chartered Bank would pay for their travel as they were the bank’s employees when in fact not. She said Chifuka did not dispute that she was the one who generated invoices for walk-in passengers who paid cash for the tickets. “Clearly the fact is that the accused’s evidence of small recoveries does not tally with what is being alleged because it is not the small amounts of recoveries that is […]
