Ndudi Anyim
An operation by the Hawks Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team has led to the arrest of six suspects in Kuruman and Kimberley respectively, for defrauding Sol-Plaatjie Municipality and money laundering in Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the group created a database of ghost employees between the year 2011 to 2016 in the municipality, and non-existent workers had their salaries paid into various fraudulent bank accounts resulting in approximately R1.6 million loss.
Speaking on the arrest, Nomthandazo Mnisi, a Police spokesperson, said the suspects aged between 31 and 53, have been detained and have made their first appearance in the Kimberley Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, March 25.