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Rugaya van der Schyff did not learn any lessons.

The former Western Cape attorney and conveyancer was sentenced to 55 years in prison for a series of charges ranging from fraud, money laundering, and theft.

Before this life-sized prison sentence, the 57-year-old had been arrested before, but clearly thought she was above the law, or something, and continued her revolting antics.

The Bellville serious commercial crimes court sentenced her on Thursday, noting how she was arrested and called out multiple times before, TimeLIVE notes

Western Cape NPA spokesperson Zinzi Hani said Van der Schyff was arrested for the second time on October 20 2022 on fraud and theft charges involving R500,000.

“Van der Schyff was first arrested in 2019 by the same team for misappropriating trust funds to the value of R4.8m and subsequently released on R20,000 bail.

“In 2017 the accused was struck off the roll of attorneys by the Western Cape High Court after an interdict application which was lodged in 2016.”

Even though she was disbarred, the corrupt attorney continued facilitating offers to purchase several properties from 2019 to date.

This landed her in even hotter water and she was finally convicted again, this time of 48 charges:

“Van der Schyff was sentenced to a combined 10 years’ imprisonment for two counts of money laundering, four years for contravening the Legal Practice Act, another 10 years for nine counts of fraud and a further 18 years for four additional counts of fraud, suspended for five years with conditions.

“On 30 counts of theft, the former attorney was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, while an additional three years’ imprisonment was suspended for five years on an additional count of theft.”

However, since the court ordered the sentences to be served concurrently, Van der Schyff will effectively serve ten years of direct imprisonment.

At least she can sit in her cell and console herself with the fact that it didn’t get to Alex Murdaugh’s level, by murdering anyone, even family, who threatened her money-grabbing operations.

[source:timeslive]