A woman who was employed as a finance administrator at Rhodes University has been found guilty on numerous counts of fraud, forgery, money laundering and contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act.
Thirty-two-year-old Zimasa Xabiya was convicted in the Commercial Crimes Court in Gqeberha on Thursday.
During the period between January 2017 and December 2018, she processed fraudulent travel and subsistence claims and then deposited the money into fraudulent beneficiaries' accounts for her personal enrichment to the amount of R480 000.
The spokesperson for the Hawks Captain Yolisa Mgolodela says when Rhodes University discovered the abnormality they referred the matter to the Serious Commercial rime Investigation team, which led to her arrest in December last year.
Xabiya appeared in court on the same day when she was released on a warning.
The matter was postponed to the 20th of June for sentencing
