{"id":964101,"date":"2024-07-03T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964101"},"modified":"2024-07-03T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:24:16","slug":"upington-property-scammer-convicted-of-fraud-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/upington-property-scammer-convicted-of-fraud-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Upington property scammer convicted of fraud, money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granville Saunderson, 33 years old, has been convicted of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/cyber-fraud-remains-biggest-barrier-to-online-shopping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> cyber fraud and money laundering<\/a> by the regional court in Upington, Northern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>He defrauded two people through fake property sales.<\/p>\n<p>Saunderson defrauded his first victim in December 2022, where the victim lost R178 000.<\/p>\n<p>In his second fraud case, he falsely advertised a house in October 2023 where the victim lost R70 000.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial police spokesperson, Omphile Masegela elaborates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saunderson was initially convicted in the Upington Regional Court in August 2023 for fraud where it was alleged that he defrauded the victim through a fake house sale transaction in December 2022.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another case against him was under investigation during which he advertised a house for sale in October 2023, and the unsuspecting victim, who was interested, started communicating with him. After an agreement of R 140 000 purchase price, the victim was granted a draft sale agreement while occupying the house,&#8221; adds Masegela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granville Saunderson defrauded two people through fake property sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[510,511],"class_list":["post-964101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-fraud","tag-money-laundering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}