Three suspects together with a Residence Affairs worker are anticipated to look within the Durban Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom on Wednesday, 30 October, for allegedly marrying South African ladies with overseas nationals at a clandestine workplace in Greyville, Durban.

The suspects had been arrested at their workplace in Greyville, Durban, on Monday, 28 October, following an intelligence-driven operation.

POLICE DISCOVER HOME AFFAIRS OFFICE IN GREYVILLE

South African Police Service (SAPS) spokesperson in KwaZulu-Natal Colonel Robert Netshiunda stated the suspects would pay money for identification paperwork of South African ladies and marry them to strangers, particularly undocumented overseas nationals in order that the pretend husbands would attain South African citizenship.

Netshiunda stated preliminary investigations have up to now recognized a Residence Affairs official who has been working in cahoots with the suspects and extra arrests can’t be dominated out as investigations unfold.

“A number of utility varieties, copies of identification paperwork and digital units had been seized. Of the three suspects, two males might be charged with fraud and the girl will face a cost of defeating the ends of justice after she tried to hide proof by tearing among the paperwork and threw them inside a bin. The suspects are anticipated to look within the Durban Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom on Wednesday, 30 October 2024,” Netshiunda defined.

OFFICIAL SUSPENDED

In 2023, a Residence Affairs immigration officer who appeared on Moja Love’s drug-busting present ‘Sizokthola’ for allegedly working with drug sellers was suspended.

Within the episode, the immigration officer was discovered with screenshots of official Residence Affairs paperwork in her cellphone and admitted that she just isn’t allowed to have them. When questioned about it, she stated she was checking if papers for her husband’s buddy had been prepared.

The lady was additionally discovered with a number of IDs, together with two belonging to her, two belonging to her daughters, two of her husband, and one belonging to the girl who’s presently married to her husband.

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