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By IOL Reporter 
8h ago
Johannesburg – The Hawks have arrested a 47-year-old company director who allegedly and fraudulently claimed more than R3.2 million in Covid-19 welfare funds from the Unemployment Insurance Funds.
The woman was arrested in the community of Mtititi, near Malamulele in Limpopo, by members of the Hawks Serious Corruption Investigation team.
The company director is alleged to have claimed more than R3.2m from the FIU’s Covid-19 social aid funds for more than 242 workers whose contracts had already been terminated before the lockdown took effect in March.
Captain Matimba Maluleke, a spokesman for the Hawks in Limpopo, said the Hawks received the complaint about the director after they claimed up to R3.2m from the FIU between April and August.
“Between April and August 2020, the suspect who is director of the Mtititi Drop in Center allegedly claimed R3.2m Covid-19 welfare funds from the FIU on behalf of her 242 former Malamulele-based EPWP workers.
“It was established during the investigation that the workers’ contract was terminated before the state president declared the closure of the country.
“It is further alleged that the money claimed never made it into the pockets of the former workers,” Maluleke said.
The suspect is expected to appear in Malamulele Magistrates Court on Monday to face charges of fraud, Maluleke said.
The Hawks have been busy in recent weeks, making a series of high-profile arrests, including those of former Free State Human Settlements MEC Olly Mlamleli, former department head in the same department, Nthimotse Mokhesi, and owner of Blackhead Consulting, Edwin Sodi, on the multi-million dollar rand asbestos removal project.
In an unrelated KZN matter, businessman Thoshan Panday and former KZN policeman Mmammonye Ngobeni were also arrested and released on bail for their alleged corruption in the World Cup police accommodation tender scandal in 2010.
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