This week our story took place in Calvinia at the Calvinia Specialised Commercial Crime Court last year, on 1 October 2025. Dawn Celeste Pieterson (46) is a former Home Affairs employee who claimed funeral insurance payouts by fraudulently declaring living people dead. She received her sentence this year on 26 January 2026. Dawn’s crimes took […]
This week our story took place in the Cape High Court, 2020. We have Mr Luis Filipe Duarte D’Almeida [Fernandes] and Mr Nazmien Warner. These are two businessmen who were found guilty of VAT fraud, racketeering, money laundering and corruption. They were sentenced to 16 and 17 years direct imprisonment. The charges against them come
This week our story took place in the Knysna Magistrates’ Court in 2022. We have a couple, Robbie Smith and Alice Abigail Boshoff. Robbie had changed his name to Chris Boshoff after his fake death. Robbie and Alice lived in Benoni at the time (1999) that they orchestrated the plan to fake Robbie’s death. It
This week our story took place in Limpopo where the HAWKS arrested three women for defrauding the Department of Labour more than R825,000. The three women were in connection with corruption and fraud which involved the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). All women were aged between 40 and 60, where they were arrested by the Phalaborwa-based
This week, our story took place at the Bellville Regional Court. We have Michael Benson, a former South African Revenue Services employee and registered tax practitioner. During 1997–2000, Michael worked as an auditor and compliance officer at SARS. He was also a qualified and registered tax practitioner during the period he committed these criminal offences.
