The unit will be tasked with investigating common law offences including fraud, forgery, uttering, theft and any offence involving dishonesty.
President Ramaphosa has in terms of Section 13, read with Section 14 of the National Prosecuting Authority Act, appointed Cronje as an investigating director for a period of five years with effect from 15 May 2019.
From 1998 to 2012, she was employed in various capacities in the National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa – first as an assistant to the first National Director of Public Prosecutions; as founding member of the Asset Forfeiture Unit, and for 10 years as regional head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit in the Western Cape.
Since 2013, Cronje has been engaged as a consultant on behalf of the Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative – a joint initiative of the World Bank and UNODC. In this capacity, she has worked as an adviser and mentor to asset recovery and anti-corruption units in Tanzania, Uganda, Namibia, Kenya, Nigeria, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova and Sri Lanka.In 2017 she drafted a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Study on the Effective Management and Disposal of Seized and Confiscated Assets.
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