3 ARRESTED FOR FORGED DOCUMENTS

MANZINI – Any efforts to improve the country’s fiscal standing are nothing but a sham if public driving permits, birth certificates, identity documents and travel documents are sold in the streets of Manzini.

These documents are being sold between E300 – E2 000.
Three people have been detained for the said offence.

According to impeccable sources, first to be detained was a duo who acted as agents for a kingpin. The ‘agents’ were detained on Tuesday afternoon and assisted the police with their investigation. This led to the arrest of the ‘top dog’ in the reproduction of the documents yesterday, just before noon.

Withheld

The kingpin, name known and deliberately withheld as he is yet to appear before court, had his offices along Esser Street. It is not the first time for him to be arrested as he was once incarcerated in the past years for the same offences.

The Royal Eswatini Police Service (REPS) detained the syndicate responsible for the reproduction of the State documents. This followed an investigation on the sale of government documents at Ilanga Centre, a shopping complex opposite the Eswatini National Provident Fund (ENPF) building along Masalesikhundleni Street.

According to impeccable sources, the duo produced the documents and retailed them to the desperate public on behalf of the kingpin.

Leading to the detaining of the two agents, they had been approached by the undercover police seeking that they solicit for them a public driving permit.
A public permit is attained after two years for getting a driver’s licence. It is used by drivers who transport the public.
However, some members of the public, who are eager to get employment in the transport industry bypass the stipulated time and use the documents manufactured in the streets.

Requested

The agents submitted the public driving permit on Tuesday afternoon and were then requested to produce another document. Upon getting this information, the agents – who are said to have been constantly communicating through the use of their mobile phones, requested the ‘clients’ to leave the money with an individual along the corner of Ngwane and Masalesikhundleni Streets.

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