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SowetanLive reports that dozens of employees at the Department of Labour’s Compensation Fund have been suspended for widespread fraud allegedly worth millions of rands.
The fund's commissioner Vuyo Mafata confirmed the precautionary suspensions of 35 employees after fraudulent transactions were discovered at the end of last month. He indicated that the fund had launched an investigation into the fraud, which related to payment of medical accounts. Some 11 service providers have had payments to them suspended. The employees were suspended on a precautionary basis so as not to compromise the investigation. They allegedly submitted claims using fictitious hospitals and even claimed for electric wheelchairs that were never delivered. The fund provides social security to injured, ill and deceased employees. Two weeks ago, North West doctor David Adams was found guilty of defrauding the fund of nearly R400,000 and he will be sentenced on Friday. The fund reported that 110 fraud-related cases were also under investigation during the 2015/2016 year. Another 130 financial misconduct cases were investigated in the same period, 60 of which were still in progress and 70 had been completed.
- Read this report by Loyiso Sidimba in full at SowetanLive
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