Two foreign nationals Ayela Carbo (47) and Temsngo Gabor (42) appeared before the Secunda Magistrate Court on Friday, 21 April 2023 after they were arrested by the Secunda Hawks based Serious Corruption Investigation, Serious Organised Crime, Serious Commercial Crime, K9, Stratcoin security and HSC security company on Thursday, 20 April 2023 at Evander Taxi rank Mpumalanga.
It is alleged that on the 13 April 2023, the security guard employed at HSC security was approached was by an Ethiopian national who told him that he knows him from SPAR and he want him to arrange for stock to be stolen from SPAR offering him an initial deal of R250 000.00 in stock in return for R100 000-00.
They agreed on the deal and the security guard reported the matter to his boss who further reported the case to Secunda Hawks based Serious Corruption Investigation for further exploration.
During investigation, the matter was brought before court whereby a sting was authorised and agreement for delivery was arranged to take place at Evander taxi rank on Thursday, 20 April 2023.
The agent came driving a Spar delivery truck with the stock valued at R250 000.00 as agreed.
The suspect allegedly said that he did not have the whole amount as previously agreed and they agreed that he will only get the stock for the amount which he was having. The suspect told the agent that he only had R10 000.00 and they must give him Ricoffy which they offloaded from the spar delivery truck to his bakkie and money was handed over as payment.
The main suspect together with his accomplice were immediately apprehended upon receiving the money.
The case was postponed to Monday, 24 April 2023, for Language interpreter.
The suspects were remanded in custody for further investigation.
