Several law Enforcement Agencies and Detectives from three provinces in South Africa have made contact with Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) this morning.
The Officers were seeking further details and information on a female arrested in an operation between Reaction Officers, Detectives (SAPS Verulam) and Wesbank Forensic Division yesterday 18 June afternoon.
The female victim was searched nationally for fraud and theft of Motor Vehicle. Her Modus Operandi was to provide fake information and fraudulent documents such as stolen identity cards and, unlawfully-intentionally apply for finance at car dealerships. She would sign these documents and receive the release note; then produce these notes and drive off in a brand new vehicle.
The woman was also wanted after she drove off from a KZN Car Dealership in a brand new Ford Ranger Double Cab valued at R600.000.
Reaction Officers and Detectives kept observation and noticed that this woman used a Bolt Service vehicle to enter dealership in Mt Edgecombe KZN to sign and uplift a new bakkie.
If she stole vehicles with her accomplices they would remove such vehicle at the NATIS System and were never recorded.
This morning officers entered the KZN Car Dealership building then arrested her and her accomplices. Fake documents were recovered in her possession.
Information that was also received is, the woman would pitched up at car washes and claim high value vehicles as her own. She would retrieve the keys and drive off in these luxury vehicles thereafter, tracking devices would be removed before the vehicle would be reported as sought after.
On an interview with the SAPS the woman informed the police that she resided in Gauteng.
She explained that she worked for Specialised Police Unit in Johannesburg and was acting on their instructions to assist apprehending fraud suspects. She provided names of police officers in Gauteng who had sent her to collect these vehicle.
It was then established that the names she gave did not exist.
The woman is currently in custody at the holding cells at SAPS Verulam in KZN.