A “counterfeit attorney” has been involved in a scam where state land in Natal was illegally sold through forged documentation.
It appears that the Department of Public Works in the province is the biggest victim of fraud, but several other departments, including the South African National Defense Force and possibly some private owners, have been targeted.
The police are now trying to unravel who is involved in the syndicate and where the money paid for the properties has gone.
Apparently, a woman is involved who advocates herself as an attorney but is not. She was recently in court after the KwaZulu-Natal Law Society launched a court case in which she had been misrepresented as a conveyancer, and is suspected of involvement in ten suspicious transactions the properties.
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