This week our story took place in Bryanston, Johannesburg. There has been warnings from local cyber security experts that there is a rise of online scams in South Africa and globally. Six alleged suspects were arrested for being investment scammers along with 25 call centre agents for contravening the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act. […]
This week our story took place in Calvinia at the Calvinia Specialised Commercial Crime Court last year, on 1 October 2025. Dawn Celeste Pieterson (46) is a former Home Affairs employee who claimed funeral insurance payouts by fraudulently declaring living people dead. She received her sentence this year on 26 January 2026. Dawn’s crimes took
This week our story took place in the Cape High Court, 2020. We have Mr Luis Filipe Duarte D’Almeida [Fernandes] and Mr Nazmien Warner. These are two businessmen who were found guilty of VAT fraud, racketeering, money laundering and corruption. They were sentenced to 16 and 17 years direct imprisonment. The charges against them come
This week our story took place in the Knysna Magistrates’ Court in 2022. We have a couple, Robbie Smith and Alice Abigail Boshoff. Robbie had changed his name to Chris Boshoff after his fake death. Robbie and Alice lived in Benoni at the time (1999) that they orchestrated the plan to fake Robbie’s death. It
This week our story took place in Limpopo where the HAWKS arrested three women for defrauding the Department of Labour more than R825,000. The three women were in connection with corruption and fraud which involved the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). All women were aged between 40 and 60, where they were arrested by the Phalaborwa-based
