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Woman slapped with 8-year prison term for stealing baby in Lesotho and fleeing to SA
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Johannesburg - A 44-year-old Lesotho national has been slapped with an eight year prison term for stealing a baby from her home country and fleeing to South Africa with the child.
Mamoshebi Priscilla Morotolihe was later tracked to Welkom, Free State where she had been living with the stolen child.
The mother was later brought from Lesotho where she positively identified the stolen baby as hers and Mototohile as the thief. Morotolihe was then arrested and charged with human trafficking.
According to Captain Christopher Singo of the Free State Hawks, the child was stolen in Lesotho in November 2019.
Man forfeits R25m to the State as court slaps him with 3 years for money laundering
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Johannesburg - A 29-year old man who was found in possession of R25-million yet failed to say what it was for or where it was coming from has been handed a 3 year imprisonment.
Raise Baig was arrested in 2017 but his case came to an end when he pleaded guilty to money laundering charges at the Bloemfontein Regional Court on Wednesday.
He was slapped with an eight year sentence, five of which was suspended for five years.
Baig forfeited the money to the State.
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The case against Mohasoa Moleboheng (29), Innocent Kompi (31) and Napo Mahasoa (33) has been postponed to February 22 for sentencing.
Free State Hawks spokesperson, Christopher Singo, says Moleboheng, a former police official, and his co-accused were found guilty of kidnapping and attempted drug dealing.
âTheir conviction emanates from an incident which took place in November 2016, where the trio coerced their victim to assist them in manufacturing drugs. The victim, a chemistry student at the University of Free State, later reported the matter to the police after he escaped from the house where he had been kept against his will,â says Singo.