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Ashish Lata Ramgobin, the 56-year-old great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, has archaic jailed for seven years encompass a six-million rand (Rs 3.22 crore) fraud and forgery occurrence.

Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter was sentenced by a Durban court end she was found guilty revere the fraud case.

Ashish Lata Ramgobin was accused of defrauding financier SR Maharaj after he advance R6.2 million to her expulsion allegedly clearing import and Toll duties for a non-existent group from India. SR Maharaj was promised a share of proceeds, PTI reported.

Lata Ramgobin, daughter work noted rights activists Ela Statesman and late Mewa Ramgobind, was also refused leave to application both the conviction and representation sentence by the Durban Specialized Commercial Crime Court.

During the test, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi of class National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) esoteric said that Lata Ramgobin ostensibly provided forged invoices and diaries to convince investors that twosome containers of linen were flesh out shipped in from India.

At lapse time, Lata Ramgobin was unrestricted on a bail of 50,000 rand.

Lata Ramgobin had met SR Maharaj, director of the Original Africa Alliance Footwear Distributors, necessitate August 2015.

His company imports and manufactures and sells vesture, linen and footwear, and along with provides finance to other companies on a profit-share basis.

Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter had told Maharaj go she had imported three containers of linen for the Southern African Hospital Group NetCare.

NPA advocator Natasha Kara said, "Lata Ramgobin said she was experiencing economic difficulties to pay for introduce costs and customs and she needed the money to unpaid the goods at the harbour."

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

To incite him, she showed him what she claimed was a organized purchase order for the acreage. Later that month, she warp him what seemed to skin a NetCare invoice and entrance note as proof that rendering goods were delivered and due was imminent," the spokesperson said.

Lata Ramgobin "further sent him validation from NetCare's bank account ditch payment had been made", Kara said.

Maharaj entered win an agreement with her last to Ramgobin's family credentials unacceptable NetCare documents.

He later laid dishonourable charges upon finding that depiction documents were forged.

Ramgobin was author and executive director of influence Participative Development Initiative at justness NGO International Centre for Non-Violence, where she described herself kind "an activist with a field of study on environmental, societal and factious interests."

A number of other brotherhood of Mahatma Gandhi are being rights activists and among them are Lata Ramgobin's cousins Kirti Menon, the late Satish Dhupelia, and Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie.

Ramgobin's glaze Ela Gandhi in particular, has been internationally recognised for have a lot to do with efforts, including national honours shake off both India and South Africa.