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BOSETU hit by false insurance benefits claims

BOFUS members.FILE PIC
BOFUS members.FILE PIC

FRANCISTOWN: When the Botswana Sector of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) introduced its funeral scheme, BOFUS, it wanted to give its members and their dependants dignified send-offs.

But BOSETU did not anticipate that some of its members, in conjunction with other people, would design elaborate schemes meant to fraudulently obtain money from its funeral scheme.

This came to the fore this week when two people, a 45-year-old teacher, Loonyatsang Phoga, and a 42-year-old unemployed man, Motswela Othusitse, appeared in court for a battery of charges stemming from allegedly obtaining money from BOFUS through fraudulent means.

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