Oct 16

SA police hunt for ‘fake doctor’ who escaped custody

Police in South Africa have launched a manhunt for an escaped suspect accused of pretending to be a doctor. The BBC reports that Kingsley Leeto Chele “is a Facebook con artist who targeted women by misrepresenting himself as a doctor or a pharmacist and scamming them of their hard-earned money”.  Chele is accused of having told health professionals on Facebook that he was seeking investors, before he “swindled them out of thousands of rands for projects that did not exist”.