Man in dock for vehicle sale fraud
A Kuils River man has appeared in court for allegedly using a forged payslip, bank statement and account invoice to obtain financing for a new car.
|||Cape Town - A man accused of purchasing a car under false pretences, appeared in a court in Cape Town on Friday.
Piet Jansen, 57, of Kuils River in Cape Town's northern suburbs, appeared in the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Bellville before magistrate Sabrina Sonnenberg.
He was not asked to plead to one count of fraud and three of forgery and he was warned to appear again on March 3. It was his fourth appearance since September last year.
State prosecutor, advocate Siphokazi Makanda, told the court that a new legal representative would appear for the defence, as his previous one, advocate Addae Manu, had been appointed to the Bench.
The state alleges that Jansen applied to Wesbank in January, 2014, for finance to purchase a 2014 model Toyota Corolla Impact, with the use of false documentation.
The actual vehicle purchase was at Halfway Toyota in Ottery, Cape Town.
It is alleged that Jansen falsely claimed to be a supervisor at Kula Mag Centre in Kuils River, and that he produced a false salary slip in support of his application for finance.
He was caught out when he failed to pay the first few instalments on the car, and the matter was handed to Wesbank's forensic fraud investigation department.
The forensic investigation allegedly revealed that he was not in the employ of Kula Mag Centre, that his salary slip was false, as was a bank statement in support of his stated monthly income, as well as a MultiChoice account as proof of his address.
On the fraud charge, he is alleged to have led Halfway Toyota to believe that the documentation in support of his application for finance was genuine.
On the basis of the false documentation, the finance was granted and the vehicle duly delivered to him. The first forgery charge related to the false MultiChoice account, the second to the false bank statement, and the third to the false Kula Mag Centre salary slip.
The case was postponed to March 3.
African News Agency
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