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Top municipality exec arrested for allegedly stealing R1.4m from a widow
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Johannesburg - The Hawks have arrested a chief legal adviser in the Tswaing Municipality, North West, for allegedly defrauding a widow of R1.4 million.
The woman had asked Thebeyagae Petrus Hotane, 47, to manage her late husbandâs estate. He allegedly pocketed R1.4m and gave her only R68 000.
Aggrieved by what happened, the woman opened a case against Hotane . He was arrested.
The North West spokesperson for the Hawks, Captain Tlangelani Rikhotso, said the incident occurred in 2019.
She said the woman approached Hotane, who was a lawyer at the time, and asked him to help with her deceasedâ husbandâs estate.