The woman tried to file an insurance claim for a stolen motor vehicle; in order to file the claim she had to open a case with the police for the theft of a motor vehicle.
However when the insurance company started to investigate the claim, it became clear that some details of the woman’s story seemed to be fabricated.
An insurance clerk, who cannot be named as the case is ongoing, said that while being questioned the woman confessed that her husband had used her car, with her consent, to visit a drug dealer in Rosettenville. Her husband bought cocaine to the value of R6000 but finding himself short of cash he left the car there as collateral. “Essentially the husband pawned the car for drugs,” the insurance clerk said.
The drug dealer later got rid of the car and when police eventually recovered the vehicle it was completely stripped.
The woman and her husband have now been charged with perjury and fraud at the Douglasdale Police Station.
The Douglasdale police, in an unrelated incident, also arrested and charged an 18-year-old student for reporting a false case of theft at the station.
Head of communications at the police station Warrant Officer Balan Muthan said, “False reporting of a crime is an offence and is treated in a very serious light by the police and the courts.”
