No jail for card skimming petrol attendant
A former False Bay petrol attendant has received three suspended prison sentences for fraudulent offences related to bank card cloning.
|||Cape Town - A petrol attendant formerly in the employ of the False Bay One Stop petrol filling station, has received three suspended prison sentences for the illegal possession of a bank card skimming device, for cloning the bank cards of customers and on a charge of conspiracy to commit fraud.
Robert Mhlaba, 40, appeared in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court, before magistrate Sabrina Sonnenberg, on Tuesday.
The proceedings took the form of a plea bargain, negotiated by defence attorney Delano Coerecius, with the prosecutor, senior State advocate Gertrude Magopeni.
The magistrate declared the agreed sentences fair and just and, in addition, declared Mhlaba unfit to possess a firearm.
For the possession of the skimming device, he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment, conditionally suspended for five years.
For using the skimmer to clone the bank cards of customers, he was sentenced to five years jail, suspended for five years, and on the conspiracy charge he also received a five-year suspended jail sentence.
He was warned that the suspended sentences would be put into operation, if he repeats any of the three offences, within the five-year periods of suspension.
African News Agency
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