Roofing company clerk's 19-year looting spree ends in jail time

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For 19 years Linda Ebersohn, 59, looted her company’s coffers, pouring nearly R13m into her own bank account and those of her family members.

She and her husband and their two children were arrestedEbersohn wasFrom 1998 until 2017 she channelled cash into her and family members’

personal back accounts, as well as several fictitious creditors’ accounts. She also used existing creditor particulars to siphon from the company. The Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation Middelburg-based serious commercial crime investigation unit took on the investigation and she was arrested, along with her husband and two children, and charged on November 27 2018.

On Friday Ebersohn was sentenced to 15 years behind bars, suspended for five years on condition she is not convicted of a similar offence during the suspension period.

 

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Stupid

VusiSambo So what did she spend the millions on? This report is so sparse! lousyjournalism

How he do that ?

Disgusting

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