A FORMER Padenga Holdings employee has been slapped with an eight-year jail term for defrauding her employer of $15 551.
Chenai Cythia Karachi was sentenced on her own plea of guilty to 78 counts of fraud when she appeared before Kariba magistrate, Felix Chauromwe last Friday. She told the court she had committed the offence to impress her boyfriends.
The unmarried, but heavily pregnant Karachi will effectively serve four years in jail after two years were suspended on condition of good behaviour, while another two were set aside on condition she restitutes her former employer.
It was the State case that Karachi committed the offence between January and December last year.
In passing sentence, the court considered that Karachi was a first offender who did not waste the courts’ time by pleading guilty. Philip Urayai prosecuted.