2010-06-07 07:45
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Durban - Two women were arrested on Sunday for allegedly defrauding the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) of about R4m in Msane, KwaZulu Natal police said.
One of the women was believed to be a wife of an Inkatha Freedom Party counsellor in the area, said Lieutenant Colonel Vincent Mdunge.
Mdunge said the two women were employees of Sassa, with one based in Msane and the other in Mtubantuba.
He said the women would assist people who wanted to receive illegal grants from the agency with applications.
"People would apply for grants under false pretence of being ill and the women would allegedly assist them in receiving the grants," said Mdunge.
Once an application was approved for a grant, the women would either split the money with the false applicants or keep the money for themselves, Mdunge said.
The women, who allegedly have been defrauding Sassa since 2008, were due to appear in the Msane and Mtubantuba magistrate's courts on Tuesday.
- SAPA
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Comments by Sonny
We live in a corrupt environment in SA because of politics!
Sounds like the way Winnie Mandela used to enrich herself.
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