Darron Jansen heard his fate in court this week. He and his co-accused Sandile Khwela used an accident report from an accident that occurred in June 2008 in Port Shepstone, to submit fraudulent claims to the Road Accident Fund (RAF).

While the report and the details of the report were correct, the two populated fraudulent details of complainants before enlisting the assistance of an attorney to submit the claims to the RAF.

Regional Spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority, Natasha Ramkisson-Kara, said Jansen and Khwela used the complainants’ ID numbers and personal details without their consent and those people were not even involved in the accident.

“Jansen and Khwela committed the offences from 2008 to 2011, until the RAF became suspicious of the volume of cases emanating from the KZN south coast and launched an investigation, resulting in their arrest. Had the fraud not been discovered, the RAF could have suffered a potential loss of about R1.4 million. Khwela chose to plead guilty to the offences and was sentenced to three years imprisonment, while Jansen’s matter went to court,” said Ramkisson-Kara.

She added in court, regional court prosecutor Hazel Siraramen led the evidence of 20 witnesses.

She said some of the ‘complainants’ testified in court, confirming that they were not involved in the accidents that were claimed for on their behalf. Evidence that surfaced in court was that at some stage, not during the offences, Jansen was a police officer.

The court sentenced Jansen to seven years imprisonment (all counts taken as one for sentencing purposes) and he was deemed unfit to possess a firearm.