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One of the recovered vehicles
Police in Ndirande, Blantyre have recovered 8 motor vehicles and arrested Vincent Banda,25, who is suspected to have stolen the motor vehicles in a collateral syndicate.
The suspect in the month of April hired two vehicles belonging to Tinkhani Benjamin aged 34 on self drive.
In the first two weeks, he honoured the payment and later could not be traced prompting Tinkhani to report the matter to Ndirande Police Station.
Upon receipt of the complaint, detectives from Ndirande Police swiftly launched a manhunt and Vincent was later arrested in Mulanje while driving a different hired car.
Upon being quizzed by the detectives, it was revealed that he used the motor vehicles as collateral to borrow huge sums of money from different people.
He could trick the potential clients by using fake car documents to justify that he owns them.
After further invetigations, it has been established that he used eight motor vehicles as collateral and collected K22 million from different clients.
Vincent Banda who comes from Chilomoni village in Traditional Authority Kuntaja in Blanytre will appear in court soon to answer charges of obtaining goods and money by false pretences.
Police warn people against hiring their cars to suspicious people and also avoid giving huge sums of money to people not familiar with or using suspicious documents.