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Jailed tour operator promises refunds

21 Feb 2018 - by Dorine Reinstein
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AHMED Talaat, director and

chairman of ATL Tours, who is

still behind bars, has vowed to

pay back everyone to whom he

owes money.

He was arrested on

January 8 after more than

40 customers came forward

late last year to open cases

of fraud against ATL Tours

(see TNW January 22).

Ahmed appeared in court

on February 6 for a fourth

bail hearing, which was

again denied.

According to Andre van

Wyk, senior investigator

at Forensic Data Solutions

(FDS), the tour operator

vowed in court he would

reimburse everyone to

whom he owed money.

Ahmed’s attorney, Nadeem

Mahomed, informed the

court that arrangements

had been made to transfer

monies back from Egypt,

Ahmed’s home country,

to South Africa into a

trust account from where

arrangements would be

made to reimburse affected

parties.

Ahmed’s case was

postponed until February 17

to make provision for the

transfer of funds.

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