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How police lent credibility to the Morita Forestry pyramid scheme

And so did the Forestries department and a municipality

Members of the South African Police Service pose at an event hosted with Morita Forestry, a company that scammed South Africans out of millions of rands.

Last week we exposed how the Morita Forestry scam caused thousands of South Africans to lose millions of rands.
It has emerged that the police had an important role in promoting the credibility of this pyramid scheme.
So did the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), and the Rand West City Municipality.
None of these state institutions conducted due diligence before partnering with Morita on events. The municipality says that DFFE introduced it to Morita.
Victims have explained that they invested in the scheme because they saw marketing materials that included the…

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