Undercover Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers received a complaint on 19 August of a man who was allegedly selling land illegally in Kaalfontein for R40 000 per stand.
The man was advertising the sale of the land on social media. According to JMPD, the officers established that it was municipal-owned land through the City of Johannesburg’s Group Forensic Unit, and they then approached the Hawks for assistance, to help to get the suspect arrested.
“An arrangement was made with the suspect to meet at Ivory Park Police Station on Thursday, to have an affidavit done and stamped and to pay him a deposit of R10 000,” said JMPD’s spokesperson, Wayne Minnaar. “After the suspect accepted the money, he was tactfully arrested.”
Minnaar said the suspect appears to be in his early forties and will soon appear in the Kempton Park Magistrates’ Court on charges of fraud, extortion and theft.
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