GAUTENG – Nicolene Trytsman (39), has been sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment by the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Monday, 08 April 2024, for charges of fraud and money laundering in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime (POCA) Act.
The conviction originates from the Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation that linked her to a total of 173 counts of fraud following a case that was registered at Douglasdale police station in November 2020. At the time of the crime Trytsman was employed at Nidec Industrial Automation Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd as a payroll administrator as well as an assistant accountant.
This meant she was authorized to access the company’s bank accounts which she stole from a period spanning five years since October 2016 to July 2020. Her modus operandi was to create fraudulent payment instructions and substitute suppliers banking details with her own resulting in the company losing over R6.1 million.
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