The Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court has sentenced Prishne Khan after she was found guilty of fraud. She hid in a freezer to evade capture. Picture: SuppliedA 37-year-old former finance manager has been handed a 10-year prison sentence after she was found guilty on 63 counts of fraud.
She then worked as a finance manager at another company between March 2017 and September 2017, where she had access to Customer Loyalty Consultant Ltd's banking accounts. After leaving the company, another employee then gave her a token, which allowed her to siphon more than R3 million into her account between September 2017 and March 2018."She appeared in court in May 2018 and pleaded guilty. She claimed that she needed the money and used the monies to buy her husband a car. However, evidence in the pre-sentence report revealed that she had used the stolen funds for gambling," Mahanjana said.