Shop manager probed for money theft in Namibia

The manager allegedly used supervisors’ authorisation cards without their permission to make refund transactions, resulting in more than N$62,300 being stolen from the shop.

RUSTENBURG, May 18 (ANA) – Two weeks after a bank manager was arrested for alleged money theft in Namibia, a retail shop manager is suspected of stealing over N$60,000 (about US$4,243) from her company, local media reported.

The manager of Pick n Pay in Okongo in the northern part of the country is under investigations over the suspected theft, daily newspaper The Namibian reported on Monday.

The manager allegedly used supervisors’ authorisation cards without their permission to make refund transactions, resulting in more than N$62,300 being stolen from the shop.

According to the newspaper, the money has not been recovered and the manager has not yet been arrested.

Two weeks ago, the branch manager of Standard Bank in Arandis in west central Namibia was arrested for allegedly stealing over N$1.1 million from the bank.

This was after she was contacted by unnamed person to hand over N$800,000 in cash and to transfer a further N$306,000 into a Bank Windhoek account with the promise that she would receive double the amount back, local newspaper Infomante reported.

Engelborg Strauss, aged 47, appeared in the Swakopmund magistrate’s court on a charge of theft and her case was postponed to June 2 for investigations. She was remanded in custody until her next court date.

The Namibian reported that she had given several excuses for the theft, one being that some people had threatened to kill her husband if she did not pay them the money. When she paid them the first time, they demanded more, she claimed.

– African News Agency (ANA), Editing by Stella Mapenzauswa