Police have arrested a man advertising government’s lands on Facebook.
He was caught following an undercover sting for allegedly selling municipal land at R40,000 per stand in Midrand.
According to Johannesburg metro police department (JMPD) spokesperson, Wayne Minnaar on Friday, he said the undercover officials were notified about a land in Kaalfontein that was advertised for sale on Facebook.
It was later discovered that the land belonged to the municipal and he had no right to sell it.
The undercover sting involved JMPD collaborating with Hawks. They had to deceive the suspect in his early forties to come to Ivory Park police station on Thursday to receive an affidavit to be paid a deposit of R10,000 for the land.
“After the suspect accepted the money, he was tactfully arrested,” said Minnaar.
The suspect, is expected to appear in the Kempton Park magistrate’s court on charges of fraud, extortion and theft.
