"The Real Housewives of Cape Town" star Kgalalelo Loveline Abinokhauno (Moloko), popularly known as Mrs Leo, has been convicted of fraud for her involvement in a dating scam.
Mrs Leo and her co-accuseds, Uguchukwu Nawachukwu, her husband Innocent Abinokhauno(absconded), Stanley Osakwe, and Bright Odumo Ogedengbe were sentenced at the Cape Town Regional Court.
Mrs Leo gained popularity after she appeared on the reality show "The Real Housewives of Cape Town". She is a content creator with an events business.
They scammed two women, an American and a Canadian, of more than R3.2 million in amounts paid to different accounts of the accused. The two women were lured to an online dating site where they were made to believe that they were dealing with an American engineer involved in a project in South Africa.
The engineer experienced sudden emergencies and requested the two women to help them financially with a promise to repay the money. The repayments never happened. The engineer was a hoax created by a group of organised criminals.
