Four people were arrested in Durban after police uncovered an operation producing fake driver’s licences, pay slips and licence discs, police said on Wednesday.
Captain Khephu Ndlovu said police, acting on information received, arrested three men and a woman on Tuesday afternoon.
Police had followed two men they believed had bought fake temporary driver’s licences. The two men were arrested near Stanger. Asked to produce their driver’s licences, the two men produced the fake temporary licences.
They then led police back to Durban’s Umlazi area where a man and a woman were arrested at a house in Umlazi’s N-section.
Ndlovu said that temporary driver’s licences, identity documents without photos and fake education department pay slips were confiscated. The pay slips were apparently being used by people to secure loans.
Several memory sticks, a printer, a scanner and computer were seized as well as four fake driver’s licences that were ready for collection. A stamp bearing the logo of the department of transport was also seized.
The four face charges of fraud, forgery and possession of fake documents. — Sapa