This is absolutely disgusting! Thousands of people, who have legitimate claims against the RAF, will be denied assistance because of lack of funds because of fraudsters!
I urge and challenge everyone out there - if you know of anyone that is trying to defraud this fund (and any other for that matter) - report it. The lives of some needy people may very well depend on it!
Dozens nabbed for fraud
June 15 2007 at 06:13AM
By Sibusiso Mboto
The combined efforts of Commercial Branch of the police, the National Prosecuting Authority and Road Accident Fund investigators has resulted in the arrests of 80 people in June for defrauding the fund. Police said that more than half of the 80 suspects were from KwaZulu-Natal and the rest from Gauteng. The value of the fraudulent claims totalled more than R3,7-million. The clampdown was aimed at curbing rampant defrauding of the fund. The police said that while RAF fraud syndicates had mainly involved doctors, lawyers and civil servants in the past, taxi drivers had now also become involved. "We have found that some of the drivers fabricate information on vehicle accidents and false claims are submitted to the RAF for payment of fictitious injuries sustained in accidents that never occurred," said police spokesperson Phuti Setati.
Setati said remarkable progress had been made in the fight against fraud. This was reflected by the fact that 15 fraudsters had been arrested in KZN and 13 in Gauteng in a similar operation in May. In 2006 four doctors from KZN operating as a syndicate who had allegedly assisted in 178 false claims were arrested and charged with defrauding the fund. Setati said that one of the four doctors had been sentenced to a R1-million fine or 15 years' imprisonment with an additional 15 years suspended. He said the team was on the verge of making further arrests in Durban.sibusiso.mboto@inl.co.za
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