The City of Joburg Property Company has discovered several City-owned properties that were fraudulently transferred to other individuals without their knowledge or consent.

The case was first identified by the City of Joburg’s GIS Department where they track and verify all properties that are transferred so that they can update the City’s billing system to bill the correct property owners. The GIS Department then assisted the JPC by extracting transfers that occurred on the properties that are owned by the City, which are then analysed internally to check the legitimacy of the transfers.