She was found guilty by the specialised commercial crime court in Sasolburg on 1,116 counts of theft.Hawks spokesperson warrant officer, Fikiswa Matoti, said investigations into Vogel started when the owner of the business was notified by Absa Bank of a large amount of cash withdrawn from the business’ account on December 24 2019.
“An internal investigation was conducted by the business owner, where it was discovered that Vogel, who was the financial officer and the only person with access to the business’s online banking at the time, fraudulently transferred money from the business account to her personal account,” she said.Matoti said the investigations found Vogel had done these fraudulent transactions from 2014 and stolen R2.5m from the company.