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Bail granted for suspects in ID scam

 
WATERVAL – The five individuals who were arrested last week on fraud charges before and after the screening of an SABC 3 Special Assignment programme, linking them to scams through which illegal foreigners were obtaining testimonials that helped them to get South African identity documents, were granted bail at the Waterval Magistrate court this week.

The principal of Tshimonela school, Alfred Muila (51), the headman of Mpheni, Frank Davhana (47), and Vincent Tambani (33), a clerk at the Mpheni tribal office, were arrested shortly after the screening of the programme by the Thohoyandou Organised Crime Unit, while Prince Rangani Maluleke (41), a Home Affairs official based at Elim, was arrested a day earlier.

Another Home Affairs official, Grace Mukwevho (48), was the first individual to be arrested. When the four men appeared in the Waterval Magistrate’s Court last Thursday, they were not asked to plead. On Monday, the Waterval Magistrate Court granted each of them R2 000 bail, but the case against headman Davhana has been withdrawn by the Provincial Department of Justice, on the basis that there is not enough evidence to link him with the scam of facilitating testimonials to illegal immigrants.

News - Date: 11 March 2005

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