Arthur Qedinda Dube (38) appeared at the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Bellville on Friday 5 July 2019, facing various charges of fraud, money laundering and contravention of the Electronic Communication and Transaction (ECT) Act.
Dube was arrested by members of the Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team on 15 March in Johannesburg. Prior to this arrest, Dube remained a long outstanding suspect linked to various fraudulent transactions around Cape Town and he was reported as a wanted suspect.
He made his first court appearance at Hillbrow Magistrates court. The matter was postponed and transferred to the Muizenberg court for 18 March 2019 where he abandoned his bail application.
Dube pleaded guilty on all charges, including contravention of the Immigration Act as he has been found to be in the country illegally, consequently he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for each of the several counts of fraud, money laundering. All sentences have been ordered to run concurrently, he is to serve five years imprisonment term.
Additionally he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for ECT Act 25 of 2002, wholly suspended for five years with stringent conditions. The case against his co-accused Silindilizwe Ntini (40) and Lwazi Madonono (30) continues in the same court on 22 July 2019.
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