The High Court in Juba today has sentenced a National Revenue Authority officer to 7 years imprisonment for theft of 150 financial forms.

The incident happened in 2021 when the National Revenue Authority accused one of its officers of stealing 150 finances forms.

Mading Mayen Randhal was assigned to send the forms to Renk County of Upper Nile, where they got missing later.

Mayen narrated that due to a lack of transportation, he called Mabior Mayen Lueth to help him transfer the form to the airport.

Mayen accused his partner of the crime Mabior Mayen Lueth’s confiscation of the financial forms.

He says because of the delay of the flight he left the forms in his partners’ vehicle and that is an argument that his lawyer failed to prove.

However, the judge found him guilty of mistrust under section 351 of the South Sudan penal act 2008 and ordered him to pay 250 million pounds worth of the lost forms.

Judge Garanga Ajak acquitted the second accused telling him that the court send him free not because he is innocent but because the first accused failed to approve his responsibility for the crime

Advocate Kacual Benjamin Makoi, the first accused defense lawyers say he will appeal against the verdict describing it as unfair.

Benjamin says the National Authority is responsible because it fails to provide transport means to his client to transfer the forms.

” Due to lack of mobility,  he called on his cousin who is the second accused  to bring the forms home. They were using his car wheN he runway with the forms and sold them out,

“In this case, releasing the second accused is not a right decision because he is the beneficiary of the loss of the forms  and I am going to appeal against the verdict, he said.

In her response to the court verdict today Mabior Mayen Lueth the second accused defense lawyer says her client had nothing to do with the accused and the case.

“My client had nothing to do with him because his client works as an officer in the army while he is the one working in the Revenue Authority,

“He thought that accusing my client that he left the forms in my client’s car would deny him the charge. My client spent a year in prison and today [Thursday] he was released,” said Egbal John Akon