ARREST IN CONWAY NYMAN E531 000 ‘PROBASE’ FRAUD

MBABANE – After about a year, an arrest has been made in connection with the alleged defrauding of construction products supplier, Conway Nyman.

Conway Nyman (Pty) Ltd, a company that deals in cement products, was allegedly defrauded after receiving an award for a tender purported to have been issued by Probase Swaziland and spent about half a million Emalangeni in buying the material.

In total, the company allegedly spent E531 000 in the procurement of the material which, it was made to believe, was for the E30 million worth six-kilometre road from Buka to Mdzimba.

However, its joy was short-lived when it discovered that it had been defrauded which was then that it took the legal route and reported the matter to the police.
This publication reported in March this year that the facilitator of the deal allegedly disguised himself as an engineer from Probase,  duplicated the company’s stamps and collected the material after it was delivered in  November last year.

It was alleged that the management of Conway Nyman started suspecting foul play when the payment for the supply was not forthcoming following that the company had been promised that it would happen  at the end of December last year.

The company then engaged the Probase office only to be told that they did not have knowledge of the said tender and that the person who pioneered the deal had long left the company.

In February this year, Conway decided to take the legal route by engaging its lawyers, who served Probase with summons demanding the payment.
Probase then took up the matter with their own lawyers, who responded to the summons by explaining that it never at any point ordered any goods or received them.

This newspaper is in the possession of copies of the correspondence between the two law firms, where an agreement was also reached that the civil case be withdrawn as it was clear that an act of fraud had been committed.

It was then that the matter was reported to the police and a senior manager of Probase recorded a statement at the Mbabane Police Station Fraud Unit.
Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati confirmed yesterday that a man had been arrested in connection with the fraud case.

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