DEADLY BENEFITS
Killers, mainly women, play a sinister role in the growing number of insurance fraud cases, as poverty takes its toll.
Experts warn that South Africans are turning to crime to put food on the table and the rising cost of living is adding to the burden.
Insurance Crime Bureau chief executive officer Garth de Klerk said “poverty-driven” distress was so high that some people, mainly women, engaged hitmen to kill, so they could pocket the benefits paid out by insurers.
“People are under extreme financial difficulties and pressure, especially the middle class, and they are resorting to crime and perpetrating fraud because they’re
