Corrupt home affairs official jailed in Port Elizabeth

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

A Pretoria-based Home Affairs official has been sentenced to an effective four years in jail in the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes court.

Selby Skosana, previously employed as a senior accounting clerk at the Department, was on Thursday sentenced to six years imprisonment, two of which were suspended for five years.

Thirty-nine-year-old Skosana earlier pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and corruption.

The charges relate to submitting false travel and subsistence claims between 2011 and 2013. According to the state the department suffered an actual loss of more than R220 000, while Skosana received more than R40 000 in gratification.

During her testimony, Home Affairs Deputy Director of Investigations, Eunice Mhlanga said that the department was faced with so much corruption and that 8 more officials around the country still needed to be arrested for the same case.

Skosana's co-accused, a PE based control immigration officer, Noninzi Dyonase will appear in court for her trial on the 20th of May.