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PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty in federal court on May 15, 2024, to a fraud conspiracy charge involving the largest known Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud in the Western District of Pennsylvania, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Matthew Lloyd Parker, 37, pleaded guilty before United States District [...]

Jacksonville, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging five individuals with conspiracy, 4 counts of wire fraud, 15 counts of access device fraud, and 3 counts of aggravated identity theft. The following individuals have been charged in the indictment in connection with their participation in a multi-state [...]

FREE STATE - Members of the Hawks attached to Bethlehem Serious Commercial Crime Investigation have on Monday, 20 May 2024, served court summons on a 50-year-old Clocolan man. The suspect will make his first appearance in the Clocolan Magistrates' Court on 11 June 2024 facing charges of fraud and contravention of the National Credit Act [...]

WESTERN CAPE - Micheal Adriaan Janse Van Rensberg (45) has been re-arrested by the Hawks based in George on 20 May 2024 for fraud and money laundering. He was appearing in court in Secunda, Mpumalanga on an unrelated matter during his arrest. This stems from January 2021 when the accused allegedly defrauded complainants of an [...]

FREE STATE - Robin Teboho Moloi (52) and his company, RNT Management Services, were on 17 May 2024 sentenced by the Bloemfontein Regional Court after they were found guilty on six counts of fraud and Contravention of Section 235 (1)(a) of the Tax Administration Act of 28 of 2011. In 2020, the South African Revenue Service [...]

MPUMALANGA - A 63-year-old,  African male is expected to appear before the Middelburg Magistrates' Court on Monday, 20 May 2024 for fraud. The arrest followed after a warrant of arrest was authorised and executed by the Hawks Middelburg and Secunda based Serious Commercial Crimes Investigation assisted by Metro tracing unit (Gauteng) on 18 May 2024. [...]

FREE STATE - On 17 May 2024, the Bethlehem Commercial Crimes Court sentenced Jeanette Nhlapo (38) after pleading guilty for committing fraud against the South African Revenue Service (SARS). The charges against Nhlapo originate from when the company she is co-directing, Castle Hill Trading, submitted fraudulent tax claims to the amount of R1.5 million for the [...]

EASTERN CAPE - The Mthatha Specialised Commercial Crime Court convicted Lindeka Patricia Ntlokwinendaba (41) on 15 May 2024 for charges of fraud. This is subsequent to a joint venture by Mthatha Serious Commercial Crime Investigation (SCCI) of the Hawks, National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and Old Mutual insurance company. Ntlokwinendaba insured the deceased, Mfunxuse Golden Mvinqi with [...]

MPUMALANGA - Miss Ntombelanga Pretty Labane (40) appeared before the Amersfoort Magistrate Court on Thursday, 16 May 2024, after she was arrested by the Hawks Secunda based Serious Commercial Crime Investigation unit for fraud. It is alleged that on 1 September 2016, Labane applied for a business and accounting educator’s post at Hlelimfundo Secondary School [...]

FREE STATE - Mathoto Cynthia Letseng (34) and Morena Solomon Mokete (26) appeared before the Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court on 15 May 2024 after they were arrested for separate cases of fraud and money laundering. It is alleged that during 2020, Morena Solomon Mokete lodged an application for the Covid-19 Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) with [...]

EASTERN CAPE -  The swift arrest of a former police reservist on charges of fraud was welcomed by the community in Middleburg. It is alleged that the 50-year-old suspect defrauded the community earlier in 2024, posing as a SAPS detective, thereafter he requested money to assist suspects in obtaining successful bail applications. On separate incidents, [...]

ST.GEORGE, Utah – Bradford, Leland Fishback, 40, of St. George was sentenced today to over two years’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release and ordered by the court to pay $685,845.05 in restitution. The sentence, imposed by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Robert J. Shelby, comes after Fishback admitted to fraudulently obtaining government funds from programs [...]

The FBI’s 2023 IC3 Elder Fraud Annual Report Highlights a Growing Crime Trend MIAMI—According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), 2023 total losses reported by those over the age of 60 topped $3.4 billion, an almost 11% increase in reported losses from 2022. Tech support fraud was the number one crime type reported [...]

HOUSTON – Five individuals are now in custody following allegations they tricked an elderly man in his 90s out of over $300,000 in retirement funds, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Authorities arrested Lenel Hopkins, 52, Antoinette Monique Hopkins, 42, Alichia Webster, 60, Neil John Halvorson, 65, and Victor Evans Jr., 70. The arrests occurred in [...]

WESTERN CAPE - The Bellville based Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team of Hawks have on 14 May 2024 arrested an additional suspect aged 54 years on charges of fraud. He is expected to appear at the Goodwood Magistrates' Court on 16 May 2024. His arrest emanates from an incident in February 2024 when Dylan Conroy [...]

The South African fraud landscape has steadily increased over the past five years, making this one of the top risks South Africans face daily. Evidence of this risk is clear for all to see with the recent hack of the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) and the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), which are [...]

EASTERN CAPE – Thozama Sauli (40) who was the bookkeeper of Zone 607 CC company appeared before East London Magistrates’ court on 14 May 2024 for allegations of Value Added Tax fraud. Sauli was ultimately arrested by East London based Serious Commercial Crime Investigation of the Hawks on the same day of his court appearance. [...]

Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Hui Qin, also known as “Qin Hui,” “Hui Quin,” “Muk Lam Li” and “Karl,” a citizen of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), who was listed on Forbes Magazine’s List of Billionaires and who operated SMI Culture, a Hong Kong-based entertainment entity, was sentenced by United States [...]