It has ended in tears for a man who fraudulently obtained a job after lying that he had a university engineering degree.

He got the job at Umgeni water and he is now in hot water.

He has now been ordered to pay back over R2 million of salaries that he received from his employer.

 
Umgeni Water dragged Sheldon Naidoo to the Pietermaritzburg High Court in a civil case, demanding that he pay back the money after it was found he forged his degree. 

It is stated that investigations by Umgeni water revealed that Naidoo did not have the engineering degree he had purpoted to have.

They dragged him to court to recover the money which they allegedly spent on him in salary payments.

It said it would not have employed Naidoo in its graduate programme in 2008 if it knew he did not have an engineering degree. 

His fraudulent degree was discovered during an internal audit. This led to his dismisal and they feel they were robbed.

The managing director at Umgeni Water and Naidoo’s former boss Peter Anthony Gray Thompson told the court that when Naidoo was appointed to the programme they accepted his qualifications without demur and did not validate them. 

Naidoo has not spoken on the issue.