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Marine birds enjoy a seafood feast as algae bloom kills off marine life Fake payslips to open accounts land two in the dock on fraud charges
inside Swindler in court
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Celebs at Rio Copa
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Cancer screening in Swakopmund Crime Reporter
An algae bloom or also referred to as a red tide has killed off scores of small fish, shrimp and other marine life in the Walvis Bay lagoon and eastern shore of the bay since Wednesday. A strong North wind the past days caused an up-welling of phytoplankton in the bay off Walvis Bay in recent days. Full story on Page 2
Failing to pay your account for purchases on credit at a furniture shop usually results in the Deputy Sherriff knocking at your door. However, if you fail to pay the first instalment of your furniture account and it is discovered you used a forged payslip in the first place to open such an account then it becomes an entirely different ballgame. Two Walvis Bay residents Selma Matheus (31) (pictured above) and Sakaria Panduleni Matheus (26) found this out the hard way. They were arrested by the Police this week on charges of fraud. The two were part of a small syndicate that used forged payslips to open two accounts in
November last year in Walvis Bay at the furniture outlets of Lewis and Beares. To give credibility to these forged payslips a telephone number was given and Selma Matheus apparently answered phone calls from Lewis and Beares to this number and confirmed the employment of Panduleni
Matheus and a third accomplice who at the time of going to press was still on the run. When the account holders failed to honour their first payments, staff at Lewis and Beares investigated the matter and it was discovered the payslips used were bogus. Continues on Page 2
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Golf at Rossmund
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