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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The net is closing in on syndicates manufacturing and selling fake South African passports and IDs.<\/p>\n

Following the arrest of a kingpin who allegedly sold fake IDs and passports, the Department of Home Affairs is chasing down those behind the syndicates.<\/p>\n

According to Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s response to a written parliamentary question from IFP’s Liezl van der Merwe, fake IDs and passports were flagged domestically and across the country’s borders.<\/p>\n

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Motsoaledi said when fraudulent documents were detected, the department’s civic services branch referred the cases to the counter corruption branch.<\/p>\n

If it involves department officials, the security services branch investigates the matter.<\/p>\n

Immigration services’ inspectorate division deals with matters relating to foreign nationals.<\/p>\n

“Otherwise, cases are referred to the South African Police Services and other law enforcement agencies,” he added.<\/p>\n

In March, officials nabbed an alleged kingpin in a midnight sting operation in the department’s Krugersdorp office.<\/p>\n

At the time, the department vowed to follow up on all the members of the passport fraud syndicate, be they foreign nationals or South Africans.<\/p>\n

Last month, Hlahla Mathebula, a senior official in the White River office in Mpumalanga, was arrested with four people who are allegedly part of the passport fraud syndicates.<\/p>\n

The four were transported from Eldorado Park in Gauteng to the Home Affairs office in White River, to allegedly give up their identities for R500 per person.<\/p>\n

Mathebula allegedly facilitated the identity transfer from South Africans to Pakistani nationals for a fee of R5 000 per passport.<\/p>\n

According to the department, the alleged Pakistani kingpin received R40 000 from his countrymen who desired South African passports they were not entitled to.<\/p>\n

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The sting operation was carried out by Home Affairs’ counter corruption branch, police, Hawks, Crime Intelligence, and other law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n

Officials are also in search of another senior official from the Praktiseer office in Burgersfort, Limpopo. The official evaded arrest in May by, allegedly, running to a sangoma.<\/p>\n

Motsoaledi said once investigations were completed and documents were found to be fraudulent, a process to block it would start.<\/p>\n

“The department follows a process to set markers to block, nullify and cancel the fraudulently issued identity documents and passports on the National Population Register as a means to maintain the credibility of the system in the country.<\/p>\n

“The immigration service branch within the department is also involved in flagging such documents on the Movement Control System.<\/p>\n

“As a result, a note verbale is also published and circulated through the Department of International Relations and Cooperation as a means to communicate to foreign countries regarding fake or fraudulently issued passports and identity documents,” he added.<\/p>\n

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