A top cop with the South African Police Services reportedly lost millions after she was scammed by her boyfriend.
It is quiet surprising how the law enforcement agent did not smell the scam as she was made to part ways with her hard earned money.
Her lover is still on the run but his partner in crime has since been arrested and charged for the crime but questions will always be raised.
SAPS spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Matimba Maluleke said during September 2022, the woman victim, who was a colonel in the SAPS based in Limpopo had been dating a foreign national.
The foreign national told her that he had an uncle who could pray for her money and it would triple.
He stated that all she had to do was to give her money to the prophet and start a business if she wanted to become rich.
“The boyfriend and uncle allegedly persuaded the victim to resign so that they can start a flourishing business,” Maluleke said.
The victim then reigned from work in November last year as she knew that she would get a hefty pension payout.
She thereafter received her pension payout of R3.7 million in February this year. That is when all her problems started.
She eventually gave the money to her boyfriends uncle so that he could pray for the money to flourish.
That was a big mistake as it ended in tears for her.
“Shortly after handing over the money, the victim was allegedly sent on a holiday for a few days by her boyfriend and when she returned to the boyfriend’s apartment to check the progress, she unfortunately found that he had already vacated,” Maluleke said.
He had already vanished without her money and efforts to track him down proved very difficult.
She attempted reaching home by phone but he had already changed numbers. She made a police report and they managed to track down the uncle.
