SCAMMED E0.5M BY SUSPECTED LANDELA GANG

MBABANE - A man from Big Bend, believed to be an entrepreneur, lost about E500 000 after two men suspected to be members of the infamous landela gang deceived him that they would assist him multiply the money using a certain chemical.

He is reported to have given the two alleged members of the gang various amounts of cash on different occasions after they informed him that they had a connection with a ‘doctor’ in Mbabane who had a chemical to multiply the money. According to an impeccable source, the victim initially gave them small amounts of money, ranging from E15 000 to E20 000, which they paid back with interest purportedly generated by the ‘doctor’ using the chemical. This, according to the source, made the victim believe the story of the chemical which multiplied money.

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The duo told the businessman that he would get more returns if he gave them large amounts of money.  It is alleged that he then gave the duo a sum of E100 000 and later added other amounts after they informed him that the ‘doctor’ had run out of the chemical.   On Saturday, they reportedly made an arrangement to meet the so-called doctor and they drove with him (man) from Big Bend to Mbabane, and when they were in the capital city, they reportedly parked the motor vehicle they were travelling in at the Swazi Plaza parking lot.

The source narrated that they took the money and left the businessman in the car under the guise that they were going to see the ‘doctor’.  The businessman requested to go with them to the ‘doctor’, but they declined, insisting that he should remain in the car. “They told him to remain in the car as they wanted to give the doctor the money to buy the chemical.  When they left, they assured him that they would come back,” said the source. The source shared that the man waited in the car for three hours and suspected that he might have been robbed.  He reportedly continued to wait and after sometime, he decided to go and report the matter at the Mbabane Police Station.

Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati, confirmed the matter. Vilakati said so far no one had been arrested and they were still investigating the matter. This incident happened hardly a week after money belonging to women football teams was reportedly stolen from the Treasurer, Xolile Dlamini’s car while parked at a hardware store at the Industrial Site in Mbabane.

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