16 November 18:28
LIMPOPO – Police Spokesperson, Col Moatshe Ngoepe said the man appeared in the Modimolle District Court. His cases were postponed to 24 November for formal bail application and further police investigation.
16 November 11:28
LIMPOPO – The police has welcomed the re-arrest of a 46-year-old man who is wanted for a series of fraud, corruption and theft cases committed in the Modimolle policing area between 2014 and 2019. The suspect is expected to re-appear in the Modimolle District Court today (Monday, 16 November.
In a statement, Police Spokesperson, Col Moatshe Ngoepe said that the police received a tip-off of his whereabouts from the local community. “The detectives jointly with the Crime Intelligence Unit in Modimolle, immediately followed up and the man was arrested at Makapanstad in Gauteng on Sunday, 15 November.”
The suspects in the matter, is believed to be the owner of a second-hand motor dealership in Modimolle and is presently linked to 26 different cases including fraud which he allegedly committed in the Modimolle policing precinct during the said period, Ngoepe explained.
“In one of his fraudulent dealings, the suspect allegedly accepted a sedan motor vehicle from the complainant, as a trade in on 20 March 2014. A contract was signed that the dealership would settle the outstanding amount at the bank but that was not done and the complainant had to later pay two months’ installments for both vehicles.”
“More incidents were reported against the accused between 2014 and 2019. These resulted in 19 vehicles being seized by financial institutions from various dealerships where most of the complainants reported that they never received the vehicles that they had paid for at the said dealership. Others reported that they had traded their vehicles in for other vehicles but the outstanding money had not been settled with the relevant banks. As a result most complainants were forced to pay the banks for the vehicles they had purchased and for the vehicles they used as trade-ins.”
According to police records, the accused was arrested in May 2015 and was later granted bail of R1 000 by the Modimolle Magistrate’s Court. He thereafter failed to appear in court and a warrant of arrest was issued.
