Lucrative SNS Holdings Offers That Investors Could Not Resist

"For someone who has never been in the trucking business the packages are irresistible and look like an easy way to make money,"

Supreme National Stock Holdings (SNS Holdings), an alleged pyramid scheme, offered hard-to-resist investment deals that lured at least 321 people to join.

Now, the firm’s accounts have been frozen and the directors of the Pietermaritzburg-based investment company jailed.

The founder and director of the firm, Sandile Sibiya and his accomplice Nomalizo Sibiya allegedly received R500 million from investors.

Lucrative packages

Sibusiso Mncadi, one of the investors, explained in court papers how the company operated and the irresistible deals they offered.

Package	Investment	Monthly Returns	Period
Yellow	R50 000	R8 000	24 months
Orange	R85 000	R15 000	24 months
Silver	R150 000	R30 000	24 months
Black	R300 000	R60 000	24 months

“For someone who has never been in the trucking business the packages are irresistible and look like an easy way to make money,” Mncadi said.

Mncadi said he invested in October last year but he only started receiving payments in April this year.

SNS Holdings business idea

Explaining how the company would make money co-director Nomaliso Sibiya said that the company bought 80 trucks, which are used at different locations to transport goods.

Each truck carries about 35 tons, which amounts to R6 650 per return trip per truck. A truck can do eight to 10 trips a day and work about 20 days a month. That would amount to a gross income of R1,064 million to R1,3 million a month.

However, in October the company sent messages to all its clients saying that financial institutions have complained about them contravening some parts of the Banks Act so they were forced to cease all partnership operations and refund the clients.

The company promised to start refunding clients from the 1st of November but that never happened.

A case of fraud and contravening the Banks Act was opened at Pietermaritzburg police station.

Hawks members from Pietermaritzburg Serious Commercial Crime unit moved in to arrest the directors after it was rumoured they wanted to flee to Dubai.

“The two suspects appeared in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday for fraud and contravention of the Bank Act,” Hawks KZN spokesman, Captain Simphiwe Mhlongo said.

The case was postponed to 10 January 2020 for a formal bail application.

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