Cape fraud woman jailed
2013-03-11 13:31
Cape Town - A Cape Town woman, who confessed to
defrauding her employer of over R1m, will spend the next 10 months in jail, it
was reported on Monday.
The Cape Argus reported that Atlantis resident Julie Ann
de Vigno, 51, had used to the money to buy doll house paraphernalia in June
2010.
She was working in the finance department of a Milnerton
cleaning company at the time.
The Cape Town Regional Court sentenced her to five years
in prison, in terms of a particular section of the Criminal Procedure Act,
which provides she spend only a portion of the sentence behind bars.
If she was a model prisoner, she could be released and
the remainder of her sentence converted to correctional supervision.
Magistrate Jan van Zyl reportedly said she would have
spent the next 10 years in jail had there not been mitigating factors.
She had repaid more than half of the money after selling
her house and had suffered from depression.
De Vigno also pleaded guilty to 93 counts of fraud last
month and was remorseful.
- SAPA
