An ATM withdrawal slip for the Standard Bank was found in the car. A withdrawal had been made in Braamfontein in Johannesburg sometime on Monday night. The petrol tank had also been filled. Police suspect the victims were killed somewhere else and then driven to the desolate area. They have not been identified yet, but the ATM slip will help to identify at least one of the deceased.
Police also expect to discover who the car belongs to.
The vehicle had Cape Town number plates. Nelspruit Magistrate Jacqueline Boshoff ordered that Verachia's entire testimony in a fraud case be struck from the record because it was obvious that he had tried to mislead and lie to the court to protect his former secretary and the chief suspect in a cheque fraud scam. Mr Verachia was a pathetic witness. Verachia told the court that he was unaware of the scam because his secretary Dekeledi Sekgobela had used a false name to submit a fraudulent claim for overtime. He also insisted that she used his signature stamp to authorise the claim and denied any knowledge of a subsequent cover-up, during which all overtime claims were destroyed and a register of cheque payments was tampered with.