The Department of Home Affairs has outlined how passport fraud is being conducted by criminals in South Africa, leading to new measures being put in place to secure the country’s processes.
Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi recently announced that the flexibility afforded to passport applications and collections in South Africa is being removed to protect the integrity of the document following several high-profile cases of corruption involving passports in recent weeks.
They were arrested with a Pakistani kingpin who Motsoaledi described as “the master of passport fraud” in that area. Later on, some corrupt Home Affairs officials who were facilitating this fraud were also arrested.The kingpin recruited young South Africans “who are unlikely to travel overseas” and recruited a similar number of foreign nationals who wanted to acquire a South African passport.
The minister said that this process and method were followed in other cases, ending up with “Lebogang Ndlovu from Bangladesh”, which became a local joke.Because of the cases involving citizens from Bangladesh and Pakistan trying to pass through South Africa’s airports illegally, the department said it is withdrawing the transit visa exemption for Bangladesh and Pakistan from 1 August 2022.
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