Two Elukwatini women who were promised jobs are crying foul after a local man who allegedly defrauded money from them mysteriously walked away from police cells without bail.
One of his victims, an unemployed mother, spent her children’s social grant money to pay the alleged suspect over R4 000 on seperate occasions.
According to the woman, she received a circulating message about an employment recruiter for a renowned security company, who was looking for security guards and tellers.
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She was told to make various payments amounting to more than R4000 for tests that apparently didn’t exist and the retrieval of certificates which were later confirmed to be fake.
Another lady who works at a local retail company was also defrauded R50 000 by the same suspect. Both women opened a case at the Elukwatini police station on September 25. The suspect was arrested and expected to appear before court the following day. However, his case was not heard and he was released from custody without bail.
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Local Sanco leader Wyne Mashele said they are highly disappointed by the justice system and the manner the case has been handled.
“While we were assisting these women to kake legal action we discovered that he has defrauded other people over R80 000 before and he continues to walk scott free,” said Mashele.
Elukwatini police spokesperson Sergeant Wiseman Nkosi confirmed that the case of fraud has been opened.
“The docket was taken to court on the 26th of September, but somehow it was not placed on the court roll. When a docket is not placed on the roll, the suspect gets released. We are not sure of the reason yet, we are waiting for the docket to return from court to know the reason why it was not rolled,” said Nkosi.
