{"id":53896,"date":"2014-02-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53896\/pillay-sentenced-in-regional-courtorfraudster-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T09:14:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T07:14:02","slug":"pillay-sentenced-in-regional-courtorfraudster-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/02\/24\/pillay-sentenced-in-regional-courtorfraudster-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudster sentenced to 15 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dorette Witten Pillay, who hails from Witfield, in Boksburg, and is a former SARS employee was sentenced to 22 years in prison, when she appeared in the Germiston Regional Court, last Monday, February 17.<\/p>\n<p>Pillay was convicted for her involvement in a tax fraud syndicate that embezzled about R30-million from up to 12 different companies.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Magistrate D Mashimbi, who presided over Pillay&#8217;s case in the Germiston Regional Court, handed down a 22-year prison sentence to her.<\/p>\n<p>She was sentenced to 15 years for fraud and seven years for money laundering.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>She will serve both sentences concurrently.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='56e260e772eeb6948ed0000ac67313fc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pillay sentenced in regional court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":53935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,1008,989,1012,1003,1684,979,2904,2730,1029],"class_list":["post-53896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-fraud","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-regional-cour","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-sars"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","court","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","fraud","germiston","Germiston Regional Cour","Leigh Hodgson","SARS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}