A former bank employee has made a first appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court after being arrested in connection with the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) fraud and corruption case.
Former Bank Windhoek employee Heidi Boois (49) appeared before magistrate Ilge Rheent on five charges on Monday.
Boois is charged with counts of fraud, forgery and uttering, and contraventions of the Anti-Corruption Act, the Prevention of Organised Crime Act and the Financial Intelligence Act.
The charges are linked to the alleged fraudulent opening of a bank account in the name of the close corporation Quality Meat Supplies of the fugitive Victor Malima, who is wanted in connection with the Namcor case.
The state is alleging that Boois helped Malima to open a bank account for Quality Meat Supplies with the use of an identity document of someone else, who was not present when the account was opened in October 2022.
Boois will reappear in court on Friday (6 February) for the scheduling of her bail application hearing.
She is being held in custody after public prosecutor Eric Naikaku informed the magistrate the state is opposing the granting of bail to her.
Boois is the twelfth individual to be charged as an accused in the Namcor case, in which the first arrests were made in July last year.
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