Ballistic evidence from a murder in Whittlesea and a bullet casing found in an Audi in Gqeberha in 2022 led to the unravelling of a network of life insurance policy fraud and hit murders in the Eastern Cape over the past two years.
A series of murders left a trail of bodies in Nelson Mandela Bay, and now relentless investigations by police units across the Eastern Cape have linked these seemingly unrelated deaths to life insurance policy claims totalling about R3.7m.
Eastern Cape police arrested six suspects early on Saturday morning after tireless investigations connected them to a series of hit murders linked to life insurance payouts.