Online Reporter
“The Real Housewives of Cape Town” star Kgalalelo Loveline Abinokhauno (Moloko), popularly known as Mrs Leo, has been sentenced to three years of correctional supervision and four years imprisonment suspended for five years on condition that she is not convicted for a similar offence.
After a lengthy sentencing procedure Mrs Leo is back home and back to posting on her Instagram account.
On Monday, the Bellville Magistrate’s Court finally brought the years-long legal battle to an end when Mrs Leo and her four co-accuseds where handed their sentences for their role in a scheme that defrauded two foreign women of more than R3.2 million.
Mrs Leo and her co-accused, Uguchukwu Nawachukwu, her husband Innocent Abinokhauno(absconded), Stanley Osakwe, and Bright Odumo Ogedengbe were sentenced at the Cape Town Regional Court.
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.
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. Her husband, Innocent Abinokhauno, is regarded as the mastermind behind the scam, and he absconded after the State closed its case.
The couple have four children, aged 19, 17, 10 and 5, and a social worker’s report highlighted the potential impact of Mrs Leo’s imprisonment, which seemed to have weighed in her favour in terms of the court’s decision.
Ogedengbe was handed a four-year prison sentence, with two years suspended for five years.
Nawachukwu, who is the head pastor of Glory Restoration Assembly Church, which is said to have been used as a front to launder money, was sentenced to four years of correctional supervision, with the possibility of conversion to eight months of direct imprisonment if he fails to comply with the conditions – IOL.
