Employee defrauds Trek $42 000 diesel

A TREK Agriculture Petroleum employee has been taken to court for allegedly fleecing his employer of over $42 000 worth of diesel earmarked for use at the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (Arda)’s Ngwizi Farm in Mangwe district, Matabeleland North province.

Danisiwe Mteka last week denied the fraud charge when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Franklin Mkhwananzi.

The State alleges that sometime last year, Mteka sold the diesel and later misrepresented that the diesel had been diverted to Crown Africa Logistics, a company contracted by Trek to transport farm produce to the market.

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