AFDIS Clerk Granted Bail in US$8k Fraud Case

 

 

A 25-year-old customer collection depot clerk with African Distillers Limited, Tawanda Shoko, appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Court facing fraud charges involving more than US$8 500.

Shoko, who resides in Zengeza 3 Extension, Chitungwiza, was granted US$100 bail pending trial.

 His alleged accomplice, Takunda Dandara, is still at large.

Prosecutor Takudzwa Mutyavaviri told the court that between July 31 and September 3, 2025, the accused persons manipulated AFDIS’s SAP sales processing system in a scheme designed to divert funds.

Working as customer collection depot clerks at AFDIS’s Chitungwiza depot, Shoko and Dandara allegedly tampered with sales sheets and fraudulently swapped high-value stock with lower-value items on return receipts, pocketing the difference.

The fraud was uncovered after the company became suspicious of irregular sales activity and dispatched an internal audit team.

According to Godfrey Matambanashe, an internal auditor with AFDIS who represented the company in court, the audit revealed a shortfall of US$8 578, all attributed to the accused persons’ manipulations.