COPS RAID BUSINESSES FOR FORGED GOVT DOCUMENTS

MANZINI – Police yesterday detained four people as investigations into the sale of forged State documents intensify.

This publication last weekend reported that tax compliance certificates were easy to access in Manzini. Through an independent investigation, this publication gathered that the tax compliance certificates retailed between E100 and E1 000.

Officers from the Manzini Police Station yesterday conducted raids at three locations and detained the individuals.
Two of the men are from Zimbabwe, one from Ghana and another from Mozambique. They are assisting the police in their investigations into the forgery of State documents.

Another suspect is said to have disappeared moments before police could raid his shop.
This incident unfolded at the Enterprise Building, which is situated between Ngwane Street and the Manzini Bus Rank.
The officers under the Commercial Fraud Department visited the shop to investigate allegations that government documents were being manipulated there.

The shop houses a hair salon and a photocopying and laminating businesses owned by different businesspeople.
The salon is owned by females while the other is run by males.

Upon arrival, the team of five officers asked everyone inside the shop to remain where they were.
They then asked for the owner of the computers and were told that he had gone out.

However, a friend of the owner was in the vicinity and he was asked to assist the law enforcers.
During their investigations, the officers found some government documents believed to have been forged. One of the documents was a Form Five certificate.

Worth noting, customers who had come for hairdressing at the salon watched the police doing their work.
A man who had come for unknown business at the shop was searched as he attempted to leave.

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