HUBBY SQUANDERS E500 000, ACCOUNT FROZEN

MBABANE – FNB has been ordered to freeze the bank account of a man who was involved in an accident and squandered E500 000 of his compensation.

Louis Duma Nxumalo of Mbabane was certified to have a mental imbalance after being involved in motor vehicle accident while travelling from Johannesburg to Eswatini with his children.
Two of the children died and one of them suffered permanent brain damage.
The South African Road Accident Fund paid Nxumalo a sum of E1 300 000 as compensation.

The money was paid in two instalments.
The first instalment of E687 870.79 was deposited into his First National Bank (FNB) account in 2018 and the second one is due to be paid sometime this month.

Invested

Nxumalo’s wife, Hixonia, said her husband gave her E85 000 which she used to renovate their house and he invested only a sum of E100 000.
In her application before court, Hixonia said she discovered that the balance of E500 000 had been deposited into an account believed to belong to Nigerian scammers in several instalments through communication between her husband and them.
She alleged that the Nigerians were Njoku, Cebby and Lumbord.

Hixonia told the court that the three men approached her husband claiming to be from the Central Bank of Nigeria promising to assist Louis recover his money.
“I made discoveries that these people are the same scammers who have been taking monies from my husband through his phone.

“I believe the second respondent (Louis) has been transacting with the scammers using the same account. If not interdicted, same would be used for further transactions with these scammers and the family would be put to dire straits,” she said.
According to Hixonia, her husband began to behave strangely after the accident.

She said he was always under the delusion that he was at work and would wake up and send emails to the alleged scammers, hoping to recover his money.
Housewife
She further alleged that since she was a housewife, Louis stopped maintaining her and taking care of the household needs.
She said he began to spend more time on the computer.

Hixonia also told the court that she was patient with her husband, hoping that his behaviour would change but this was not to be.
She said in 2012, Louis was booked for psychological evaluation for the processing of his claim in South Africa and the results showed that he had a mental imbalance.
Hixonia said she approached Luis’ brothers and in the end the family resolved to take the legal route.

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