South Africa: Home Affairs employee sentenced to 12 years for passport fraud
Published: 2/Aug/2024
Source: IOL (South Africa)
Durban — A Home Affairs official who had been operating with a foreign national syndicate issuing fraudulent passports with the help of South Africans was sentenced to 12 years behind bars in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
Judy Zuma, 47, pleaded guilty to a string of counts including corruption, fraud, and breaching the Immigration Act and the Identification Act.
Her arrest came after a sting operation where she tried to bribe a Home Affairs Counter Corruption Investigator with R10 000.
The National Hawks Anti-Corruption Unit investigated the case.
During 2021, Zuma and the syndicate colluded with South Africans to assist foreign nationals from Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of Congo to obtain South African passports by using their identity documents and biometrics.