POTCHEFSTROOM – A 43-year-old Letsoa Edwin Ramapepe is expected to reappear in the Rustenburg Magistrates’ Court today on charges of fraud, forgery and uttering, corruption and contravention of the Immigration Act, 2002.
The accused initially appeared in court on Wednesday, 20 March 2024, after being arrested on Monday, 18 March 2024. Ramapepe was arrested subsequent to operation by Provincial Commercial Crime working together with officials from Department of Home Affairs. According to reports, information was received about a Lesotho national who was in possession of a fraudulent South African Identity Document and attempted to bribe the Department of Home Affairs officials.
Information was operationalised and the accused was arrested in Marikana during entrapment. The exhibit in a form of cash to the amount of R19 800. 00 was recovered.
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