A Beitbridge border check on an expensive vehicle has led to a two-year prison term for a Cape Town man.
A complaint of vehicle finance fraud was received at Ottery Toyota in October 2010 through WesBank, where Zayid Dawood Karrim inflated bank statements and submitted false payslips during the application of a vehicle worth R665,635. File photo.A Beitbridge border check on an expensive vehicle led to a two-year prison term for a Cape Town man.
Hawks spokesperson Zinzi Hani said 44-year-old Zayid Dawood Karrim was sentenced on charges of forgery, fraud and contravention of the National Credit Act on Monday by the Bellville specialised commercial crimes court. “A complaint of vehicle finance fraud was received at Ottery Toyota in October 2010 through WesBank, where Karrim inflated bank statements and submitted false payslipsKarrim compounded this by not paying the monthly instalments and renting out the vehicle.
“The person to whom he rented out the vehicle tried to cross Beitbridge into Zimbabwe in 2012 and that is where the fraud was discovered,” said Hani.
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