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As a result, the victims suffered a total loss of more than R590 000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The matter was then reported to the Hawks\u2019 Serious Commercial Crime Investigation based in Bethlehem for further investigation which culminated to the arrest of Motaung on Friday, 01 October 2021 where he was charged.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The case was remanded to Thursday, 07 October 2021 for the case to be transferred to the regional court. The accused was granted a R5000 bail.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Police Service<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accused, Funtha Abel Motaung (48) appeared before the Phuthaditjhaba Magistrates\u2019 Court on Friday, 01 October 2021 where he faced charges of fraud.It is alleged that during the period of July 2020 until March 2021, Motaung sold the land to the vict&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Accused in court for selling vacant land illegally - Times South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/accused-in-court-for-selling-vacant-land-illegally\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Accused in court for selling vacant land illegally - 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