Directors among 8 nabbed in Durban for R2.4m Covid TERS fraud
Eight people accused of defrauding the Labour Department's Covid-19 Temporary Employee Relief Scheme of over R2.4 million have been arrested in Durban.
They were nabbed on Tuesday by the Hawks team tasked with investigating Covid-19 fraud-related cases.
According to the crime-fighting unit, two of the suspects are the directors of companies that applied for TERS for their employees.
The directorate's KZN spokesperson Simphiwe Mhlongo says they inflated the number of workers in their firms.
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''Eight suspects aged between 22 and 53 are expected to appear in court tomorrow facing charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering.
"One of the arrested suspects is an employee of the Department of Labour who allegedly received cash from one of the directors and they received the money and shared among themselves together with the other five suspects as they are eight."
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