Home Affairs official slapped with hefty sentence for KZN passport fraud
The Department of Home
Affairs says it will continue its clampdown on corruption within the
department.
This after an official was slapped with a 22-year sentence in Durban for issuing fraudulent passports to foreign nationals.
Nomthandazo Mboyana was found guilty of fraud and corruption and contravening the Immigration Act.
The department's Cyril Mncwabe says Mboyana was based in the Eastern Cape but issued the passports to foreign nationals in Durban - remotely.
She recruited a team of South Africans to process them.
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Mncwabe says Mboyana was caught after three years.
"We are excited about this sentencing and it shows that the department is dealing seriously with issues of corruption. This conviction is the result of our counter-corruption unit which investigated this case and arrested the suspects, so it shows the department is doing something about corruption."
