17/10/2023
Scammer sought!
Durban North Cas ***/08/2022
The guy pictured below is sought for theft/fraud of R2,5million after scamming our client out of her provident fund working with a South African woman. The guy and his SA female accomplice target women nearing their pension age at shopping malls parking lots and approach them to invest in the guy’s construction and private security businesses.
The lady would convince the would be victim to trust the “businessman” since he has “helped” her mom become a multimillionaire after she retired. Numbers would be exchanged and the guy would later call the victim to a meeting at his house (in 2022 he stayed in Zimbali) to meet his business partners and people he has helped start businesses.
Our client was invited to the house, but there was no business partners when she got to the house, instead she was “introduced” to the guy’s ancestors at their request (ancestors) . She was put in a room that resembled a sangomas consultation hut (indumba) inside the Zimbali house, she spoke to an invisible voice in that room and was told she would become a millionaire under the guy’s mentorship.
Everything went south from that day for our client as she believes a spell was cast on her because she would agree to everything this guy wanted without hesitation. The guy convinced her to resign from her teaching job (she was a year away from retirement), started dating the guy and spent most of her time at his apartment in uMhlanga until her R2,5m provident fund was paid out.
The guy convinced her to withdraw R1million cash, which he later stole and transferred R1,5million from her account without her consent.
We have managed to get some solid leads on the suspect and are looking for any person who may have been his victim to come forward with what they have in order to piece together whatever leads or information that may help nail the suspect.
We started working on this case in September 2022 and we were hot on the heels of the suspect when our client received an SAPS notification that the docket had been closed. We contacted the detective as we were in contact with her during our investigation, but she stopped taking our calls and never responded to our WhatsApp texts.
We had to stop our investigation and try to sort out the docket issue before we could continue with our pursuit and we were told the docket could not be found. We pushed for a duplicate to be opened so that we could continue with our investigation, which was not easy, but we submitted statements yesterday and are restarting our investigation.
The suspect uses the name of Kelvin/Kevin from Limpopo, but we established that his real name is Abdul from Uganda- we also understand that he is currently in Gauteng, back from America where he fled to last year. The suspect drove the pictured vehicle last year, a white Range Rover (but no it was registered to a person he owned money and used the car as pawn and drive).
If you have any information or you are one of his victims, please contact us on 0677913194.