Thursday, September 6, 2018

MultiChoice Namibia alleged fraud case of R2 million against former marketing manager postponed again after the accused's legal team drops her.

The ongoing drawn-out alleged fraud case between MultiChoice Namibia and its former executive Manga Nawa-Mukena (37) has been delayed again after her legal team dropped her.

Manga Nawa-Mukena, MultiChoice Namibia's former marketing manager, stands accused of allegedl defrauding MultiChoice running the DStv service in Nambia of N$2 million (R2 million).

Manga Nawa-Mukena allegedly defrauded MultiChoice Namibia between 1 April 2013 and 17 March 2017.

She allegedly abused her marketing manager position to pay Kundan (Pty) Ltd for advertising services that were never rendered, allegedly falsifying 80 invoices for various advertising agencies and submitting them together with banking details that were not that of Kundan (Pty) Ltd but her own banking details.

The Magistrate's Court referred the case to the Windhoek High Court.

Judge Shafimana Ueitele has been forced to postpone the case yet again after Manga Nawa-Mukena's legal counsel, De Klerk, Horn & Coetzee Inc. has withdrawn from the case.

Manga Nawa-Mukena's, her husband Joseph Mukena (43), and a friend Celestino Gabriel Antonio (37) stand accused by Namibia's prosecutor-general on charges of fraud, alternatively theft, money laundering, forgery and uttering of a forged document, contravening Namibia's Organised Crime Act, obstructing or attempting to defeat the course of justice and contravening the Value Added Tax Act in Namibia.