Day: May 7, 2022

WESTERN CAPE – Two former Mossel Bay employees, Megan Kim Abdul (34) and Francis Siphokazi Majola (51) have been convicted on 23 charges of fraud worth the value of R 138 000 and were successively sentenced by the Mossel Bay Magistrate Court on Friday, 06 May 2022.

They were each sentenced to five years imprisonment of which two (2) years was suspended for a period of five years with stringent conditions. They will effectively serve three (3) years direct imprisonment.

Their sentence comes after they were arrested by the George Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team through an intensive investigation back in 2018.

Abdul and Majolla were involved in changing the status of burial erfs purchased by funeral undertakers from a standard burial to an indigent burial or a cremation with other related irregularities without the funeral undertaker being aware of the changes.

The Hawks Intricate investigation revealed that these multiple fraudulent incidents happened between July 2016 and April 2018. The duo instructed municipal cashiers to give them the difference and pocketed the cash for personal gain.

Source: South African Police Service

EASTERN CAPE:- Griessel Michael Peter (59) was released by Mthatha Specialised Commercial Crime Court on R30 000 bail on Friday, 6 May 2022, after his arrest by Mthatha based Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team of the Hawks on the same day.

It is alleged that during the period between 29 April 2017 and 31 June 2017, Peter who owns a car dealership in Johannesburg allegedly colluded with Libenberg Johannes Wellem previously arrested on the same matter, also released on bail on his appearance in court.

Wellem was employed as a sales Manager at Ronnie’s Motors in Mthatha. He reportedly targeted customers whose vehicle finance applications were declined and manipulated the company systems in order to approve the declined applications by making misrepresentations that the clients had traded in some cars.

It is alleged that once the system approved the applications, he would not inform the clients but instead release the cars to Peter without any money paid to Ronnie’s trust account. The vehicles would be sold at Peter’s dealership, once sold, the duo would tshare the proceeds amongst themselves.

Hawks investigation uncovered a total of forty (40) vehicles sold in this fashion. Ronnie’s Motors was consequently prejudiced cash to the value of more than R10.5 million in this orchestration.

The Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team of the Hawks apprehended Wellem in December 2020. Further investigation led to the additionally arrest of Peter on 6 May 2022.

Peter will join his co-accused Wellem when he appears in the same court on 24 June 2022.

Source: South African Police Service

EASTERN CAPE – Valuable information by the community members led Dutywa detectives to arrest a 53-year-old female for business burglary last night.

The arrest comes after Police investigated burglaries that occurred in local schools. Through investigation they received an information about the employee that stole the photocopy machine from the school. They swiftly responded and went to her home at Nkanini Location, Ndabakazi outside Butterworth and recovered the photocopy machine that worth R30 000.00.

The suspect was immediately arrested and charged for Business burglary and will appear at Dutywa Magistrate Court on Monday (09/05).

Source: South African Police Service