An assistant accountant and a cashier have been arrested for alleged money laundering involving almost K 2 million.

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested Clara Kansamba, 33, an assistant accountant and Sylvia Hibeene, 30, a cashier, both of Chilanga in Lusaka.

DEC Deputy Public Relations Officer Kamufisa Manchishi says the duo is arrested for alleged fraudulent false accounting, theft and money laundering.

The duo is alleged to have laundered money involving over K1, 800, 000.

It is alleged that between 1st September, 2018 and March, 2019, the duo did steal a total amount of K 1, 822, 617 from a brewery company in Lusaka.

The duo allegedly never receipted money collected from salesmen, claiming that the company’s system was down.

The duo further made false entries into the system purporting to have posted the cash which were later cancelled as journal reversals and then shared between the two.