This week, our story took place at the Bellville Regional Court. We have Michael Benson, a former South African Revenue Services employee and registered tax practitioner. During 1997–2000, Michael worked as an auditor and compliance officer at SARS. He was also a qualified and registered tax practitioner during the period he committed these criminal offences. […]
This week, our story is a pure romantic scam 101. We have Refilwe Masango (67), a former teacher and mother of three children from Mafikeng. Refilwe states that she met a scammer named Jacob in February 2022 and was scammed in April 2023. Jacob is believed to be from Uganda. She met Jacob on a
This week, our story took place at the South Gauteng High Court. We have nine convicted fraudsters who defrauded Postbank through money laundering, forgery, uttering, and stealing money from the accounts of individuals, as well as racketeering. We have the enterprise owner and ringleader of this criminal enterprise, Isaac Tebogo Ditlhakanyane (50). Eight Postbank employees
This week’s story took place at the Pretoria North Regional Court and involves two pensioners who defrauded SASSA of a combined R275 000. The two pensioners are 70-year-old Salamina Khoza and 69-year-old Devi Sigamoney. Salamina and Devi faced charges of contravention of the Social Assistance Act, contravention of the Justice of the Peace and Commissioners
This week, our story is about Darlene Harrison (49), who was a senior bank employee. She was sentenced by the Cape Town Regional Court after she defrauded her employer of millions of rands. She was employed by the Green Bank in the Operations Centre and Investments Management as an administrator. Darlene’s responsibilities were to capture,
