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Killers, mainly women, play a sinister role in the growing number of insurance fraud cases as poverty takes its toll.
Experts warned that South Africans were turning to crime to put food on the table and the fuel price hike would add 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 hit men to kill, so they could pocket benefits paid out by insurers.
“People are under extreme financial difficulties and pressure, especially the middle class, and they are resorting to crime and
