A great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi is being tried in South Africa for defrauding two businessmen of $830,887, a media report said on Tuesday.
Ashish lata Ramgobin, 45, appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday and pleaded not guilty to the charge. She was released on $3,776 bail, Enews Channel Africa quoted a police spokesperson said.
The Hawks Durban Organised Crime squad — a directorate for priority crime investigators — arrested Ramgobin on October 15 on charges of stealing $830,887 from two Durban-based businessmen. Ramgobin allegedly told the businessmen that she had won a tender to supply linen bedding to two hospitals in Africa and requested money from them for clearing containers that carried the bedding.