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Media Statement FREE STATE – Mathoto Cynthia Letseng (34) and Morena Solomon Mokete (26) appeared before the Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court on 15 May 2024 after they were arrested for separate cases of fraud and money laundering. It is alleged that during 2020, Morena Solomon Mokete lodged an application for the Covid-19 Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) with the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) on behalf of his company employees. The company received TERS benefits on behalf of 86 individuals to the amount of about R1,7 million between July 2020 and October 2020. It later emerged that the company had not paid any salaries and none of the supposed claimants were their employees. In another arrest, Mathoto Cynthia Letseng similarly claimed Covid-19 related TERS benefits worth over R847 000 between September 2020 and December 2020. It later surfaced that the claimants never worked for her company. Both matters were reported to the Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation in Bloemfontein for further investigation resulting in the court issuing summons for their appearance in court. Morena Solomon Mokete and Mathoto Cynthia Letseng were each granted bail of R5000 by the Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court. They will both re-appear on 24 June 2024 on allegations of fraud and money laundering. Ends
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