EPR, in collaboration with the police and the Rand West Neighbourhood Watch (RWNW), successfully thwarted a trade fraud attempt at an agricultural store in the Bootha smallholdings.

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EPR General Manager Johan Krogh said they received confirmation at around 10:50 today, June 3, that the store would be targeted in a trade fraud scheme.

Shortly after the transaction took place, and with the assistance of the store’s management, four EPR reaction vehicles, the EPR operational manager, and members of the RWNW cordoned off the property and blocked in the suspects’ vehicles.

According to Krogh, two vehicles were confiscated, along with fraudulent documents and the goods the suspects attempted to obtain illegally from the store.

The suspects were arrested and handed over to the police,” he said.