‘Coup plotter’, 23, in dock today

A MAN, 23, has been arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate officials perceived to benefit from state capture, including cabinet ministers, members of state owned entities and prominent South Africans, the Hawks said.

Spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said that in October, the Hawks intercepted communications of possible assassinations planned on 19 people.

The Hawks conducted undercover operations in Pretoria and Johannesburg which led to the arrest. “The suspect and a founder member of the Anti-State Capture Death Squad Alliance was arrested on Wednesday in Midrand while he was explaining to donors how the assassination of state capture beneficiaries was going to be carried out by the undercover coup plot snipers.

The communication intercepted included letters sent to selected companies to donate R140 million to fund the alleged clandestine operation.” Mulaudzi said the names of the 19 individuals would only be divulged in court.

During the probe another group, the AntiWhite Monopoly Capitalists Regime surfaced. “It used the same operandi soliciting donations to assassinate senior government officials.” The 23-year-old will appear in the court today. – ANA THE OWNER of a liquidated motor dealership in Parow has been jailed for an effective five years for multiple counts of fraud and theft, involving in excess of R3 million.

Jaco Johan Smit, 40, was the owner of 3 Way Auto.

He appeared in the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Bellville, before magistrate Sabrina Sonnenberg, who sentenced him to nine years imprisonment, of which four were conditionally suspended for five years, on 27 counts of fraud, and two of theft, altogether involving R3 491 940.

His former financial manager, Cecile Heyns, 29, was recently sentenced to three years correctional supervision, involving house arrest without imprisonment, and community service.

The charge sheet divided the fraud into five categories: His failure to settle the outstanding accounts of bank-financed vehicles that had been traded in; his failure to deliver vehicles to buyers who had paid deposits or paid in full; buyers who discovered that the cars they had bought and paid for, had been sold to third parties; the purchase of used cars from private sellers, with worthless cheques; and his failure to furnish buyers with the registration papers for their newly-acquired cars. – ANA