MPUMALANGA – Phinda Alex Ndlovu (32) was found guilty and sentenced by Louw’s Creeks Magistrate court on Thursday, 26 October 2023 for fraud. The sentence followed after the accused was arrested by the team comprising of the Hawks Nelspruit-based Serious Commercial Crime Investigation and FNB and Absa banks forensic investigators on 17 August 2023 at Nkomazi Tollgate during a stop and search operation. It is further alleged that on the day in question, the accused drove a Scania truck from Swaziland to the Republic of South Africa.
On arrival at the tollgate, the accused presented a Standard Bank cloned card to the cashier for payment at the tollgate booth. Transaction was made, and the driver was stopped and searched by the team after entering the tollgate.
During the search, he was found in possession of a Standard Bank fleet card, one Nedbank cloned card and one FNB debit cloned card, together with several tollgate transaction slips to the value of R 72 550.00.
The accused was arrested and appeared in court on several occasions until he was sentenced to R 3000.00 fine or 12 months imprisonment.
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