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As more fraud cases related to Temporary Employer / Employee Assistance (Ters) Plan payments come to light, the Hawks are silent on whether any officials colluded with those who have been arrested.
“That is still an operational matter,” said Hawks spokesman Brig Hangwani Mulaudzi.
He said that to date 14 people had been arrested in connection with an alleged fraud linked to Ters and were out on bail ranging from R200 to R5,000. So far, R5.7m was the largest allegedly fraudulent Ters transaction ever paid to an individual. The money was credited to Mamelodi’s Tshepang Phohole account in Pretoria, a payment intended for 1,400 employees.
Phohole was arrested along with four others to whom he had distributed the money. They will appear in court again on September 7.
Mulaudzi said the Asset Forfeiture Unit was dealing with recovering stolen money, but said R4.6m was recently recovered from the account of Moreroa Leso, who was arrested on Sunday. It was found that he allegedly used around R 100,000 of the R 4.7 million allegedly wrongly credited to his account. He is out on bail of R2,000.
