A medical doctor in Limpopo was among a group of 15 people – which also included a former South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) administrator – arrested for apparently recruiting non-disabled people to apply for disability grants.
Hawks spokesperson Captain Matimba Maluleke said that from June to November 2020, the doctor and the former social grants administrator persuaded able-bodied people to apply for disability grants, the doctor falsifying the information on the application forms, and the Sassa administrator processing them.
He said the first payments from Sassa to the applicants would be handed over to the doctor and the former administrator to share, while the other payments would be for the applicants, reports News24.
The group will appear in the Polokwane Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on 1 March.
More arrests are expected to be made, said Maluleke.
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