Five nabbed for counterfeit cigarettes
The Laersdrif Police arrested five men on a farm in the Stoffberg area and confiscated counterfeit cigarettes with a street value of more than a R1 million.
Warrant Officer Lucas Matentjie, Constable Wynand Sekwane and Detective Constable Michael Mothapo followed up information which led them to the farm in the Stoffberg area.
In a store room they found 152 boxes (with 50 boxes of Pacific Blue cigarettes inside every box) to the value of over a million. There were also 46kg of daggaplants in the store room. A truck and a BMW were also confiscated.
Ibrahim Limbada (20), Anton Mogale Letladi (28), Mohamed Pehir Patel (31), Ubaid Randera (32) and Johannes Ntuli Dlalisa (63) appeared in the Laersdrif court on Monday.
Bail were denied and they appeared on Thursday again for bail application.
Cases of possession of illegal cigarettes and bribery and the unlawful planting of dagga plants are being investigated.
• SARS Customs Enforcement went to the farm with the police to confiscate the cigarettes.
