26 Apr 2020

Officer Commanding No. 6 District, Senior Superintendent Cyprian Magalela has said they are investigating a stock theft case involving a Directorate of Intelligence and Security agent, a prisons officer both stationed in Ghanzi and two unemployed men.

Senior Supt Magalela told BOPA in an interview on April 26 that the investigations were in connection with five stolen goats at D’kar between April 18 and 19.

He said the men aged between 28 and 31 years appeared before Ghanzi Magistrate Court on April 23 and were granted bail.

On a separate matter, Senior Supt Magalela cautioned the public against scammers who ripped victims off their hard earned money on the pretext that they had won money in some competition.

He explained that scammers would call victims claiming that they wanted to deposit their winnings and for them to do so, one needed to provide an account with a zero balance.

He said the scammers told victims that in the instance that the account had money, they should send them the funds through their cell phones and promised them that the transaction would be reversed afterwards.

Senior Supt Magalela said once the funds were transferred to the scammers the money would never be transferred back as promised.

He said it was almost impossible to arrest or trace the perpetrators because they used unregistered sim-cards.

Snr Supt Magalela said they registered three  such cases, adding that  it seemed the perpetrators gathered information about the victim before conning them. Ends