Alleged fraudster cooked payslips, bank statements

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PALAPYE: Gotsileene Paakanye, who is charged with conning Letshego Financial Services into giving him loans worth P200,000, allegedly forged a payslip to say he was a Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) employee, the Magistrates’ Court here has heard.

Testifying in the case, BPC accounts supervisor, Kgalalelo Mokhai said Paakanye had never been in the corporation’s employ, adding that there were abnormal features on the payslip produced as evidence even though the forgery was close to the authentic BPC payslip. Paakanye faces two counts of obtaining credit by false pretense, for allegedly using fake documents to score a P119,000 loan from Letshego on January 21, 2012 and then getting a top-up of P80,000 in February of the same year. The loans were secured from Letshego’s Francistown branch.

Mokhai testified that on March 6, 2012 the DCEC officials came with the accused‘s payslips for verification during which she assessed and found abnormalities on them.

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