South African officials seized scores of fake Indian birth certificates and hundreds of documents, from a man believed to be an Indian national, in King Williams town. He was arrested along with a Ministry of Home Affairs official for running a scam.
The two men allegedly facilitated fraudulent marriages involving illegal foreign nationals, many of them from the Indian subcontinent.
They used fake documents to marry local women, some allegedly paid large sums in the marriage of convenience racket to secure South African citizenship for the foreign migrants.
The officials recovered copies of passports, identity documents, marriage certificates, temporary residence permits, visitor’s permits, asylum seeker permits and many blank Home Affairs face value documents from the two men.
Other documents seized, include police clearance certificates and foreign birth certificates, mainly from India and Bangladesh which, were all confiscated.
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