An East London man hurt his ankle when he fell and tried to scam the Road Accident Fund (RAF) out of R5m. He was caught when his case was investigated. Tubalomthandazo Butshingi‚ 32‚ was sentenced for fraud in the city’s regional court on…
The Bellville commercial crimes court has slapped a Cape Town online dating scammer with a seven-year jail sentence. Christiano Ogbeifun, 50, entered into a plea and sentencing agreement with the state after admitting to targeting…
A travel agent has been hauled before court to answer fraud charges after allegedly swindling clergymen out of R1.3m. Jeremy Noble, 45, appeared in the Bellville magistrate’s court on Thursday. He is the owner of Professional Alignment…
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule was released on bail of R200,000 after he made his first appearance in a packed Bloemfontein magistrate’s court on Friday to face charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering. Magashule’s advocate,…
A Limpopo man who defrauded revenue service Sars of nearly R1.7m was sentenced in the Mankweng regional court on Wednesday to an effective four years in jail. Evans Setshedi, 41, submitted fraudulent tax returns on behalf of a…
NONKULULEKO NJILO Two bogus doctors — who dispensed medication for sick patients, mostly pensioners, without the necessary qualifications and licenses since 2019 — appeared in the Butterworth magistrate’s court on Monday. Josiah Kizit,…
Police have arrested 15 people, some of whom are former or serving cops, in connection with fraud, corruption, money laundering and theft. The accused were allegedly involved in dodgy supply chain processes over a R56m car marking tender.…
Wits University has no record of a Nokwanda Ndlovu ever being a registered student at the institution, registrar Carol Crosley told TimesLIVE on Monday. “The university is obliged to correct misinformation in the public domain and, as…
Customers at risk after scammers commit fraudulent SIM swaps Service providers have been blasted for not having proper security measures in place to protect the identities of their clients. This after several cellphone users from…
An Eastern Cape man selling his car on Gumtree has helped foil an alleged diamond scam and extortion racket. Brig Tembinkosi Kinana said the provincial Commercial Crime Unit made the bust in broad daylight on Wednesday, in East London.…
Two former employees of the Department of Employment and Labour appeared in East London Court on September 11 for allegedly submitting fraudulent claims to the Compensation Fund (CF). The suspects were arrested and charged after an…
Hackers using state-of-the-art technology stole and defrauded South Africans out of R250-million in a single year. The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric)‚ in releasing the country’s latest digital banking crime…
Sibongile Mani, who is a Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania secretary at the Walter Sisulu University, gets instructions from her lawyer Asanda Pakade at court in East London while #OutsourcingMustFall and Pasma leader Vusi…
EAST Londoner Janet Churchill is devastated because two cellphone contracts on different networks were opened under her name using her ID book without her knowledge . Last year, Churchill opened a cellphone contract at Cell C in…
