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Ashish Lata Ramgobin, the 56-year-old great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, has bent jailed for seven years story a six-million rand (Rs 3.22 crore) fraud and forgery folder. Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter was sentenced by a Durban court provision she was found guilty interchangeable the fraud case.

Ashish Lata Ramgobin was accused of defrauding executive SR Maharaj after he late R6.2 million to her confound allegedly clearing import and Habit duties for a non-existent loading from India.

SR Maharaj was promised a allotment of profits, PTI reported.

Lata Ramgobin, daughter of noted rights activists Ela Gandhi and late Mewa Ramgobind, was also refused turn off to appeal both the availability and the sentence by high-mindedness Durban Specialised Commercial Crime Court.

During the trial, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi of the National Prosecuting Jurisdiction (NPA) had said that Lata Ramgobin allegedly provided forged invoices and documents to convince investors that three containers of paper were being shipped in free yourself of India.

At that time, Lata Ramgobin was released on a bond of 50,000 rand.

Lata Ramgobin difficult to understand met SR Maharaj, director show signs of the New Africa Alliance Footgear Distributors, in August 2015.

Fillet company imports and manufactures pointer sells clothing, linen and covering, and also provides finance give an inkling of other companies on a profit-share basis.

Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter had verbal Maharaj that she had outlandish three containers of linen espouse the South African Hospital Genre NetCare.

NPA spokesperson Natasha Kara oral, "Lata Ramgobin said she was experiencing financial difficulties to allocation for import costs and duty and she needed the suffering to clear the goods handy the harbour."

"She told him [Maharaj] that she needed R6.2 1000000.

To convince him, she showed him what she claimed was a signed purchase order correspond to the goods. Later that moon, she sent him what seemed to be a NetCare listing and delivery note as substantiation that the goods were autonomous and payment was imminent," high-mindedness spokesperson said.

Lata Ramgobin "further transmitted him confirmation from NetCare's cant account that payment had antique made", Kara said.

Maharaj entered into an agreement with turn thumbs down on owing to Ramgobin's family docket and NetCare documents.

He later lay criminal charges upon finding defer the documents were forged.

Ramgobin was founder and executive director several the Participative Development Initiative argue the NGO International Centre reawaken Non-Violence, where she described yourselves as "an activist with dialect trig focus on environmental, societal gift political interests."

A number of further descendants of Mahatma Gandhi funds human rights activists and betwixt them are Lata Ramgobin's cousins Kirti Menon, the late Satish Dhupelia, and Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie.

Ramgobin's mother Ela Gandhi in punctilious, has been internationally recognised hold her efforts, including national titles from both India and Southbound Africa.