KZN Teacher Pleads Guilty To Life Insurance Fraud

Between 2007 and 2017, Miss BT Sishi (61), a former schoolteacher, fraudulently took out 38 funeral policies with various insurers, naming non-existent children and family members as the insured. She went on to submit fraudulent death claims totalling nearly R1 million.

An investigation by the Insurance Crime Bureau revealed that the birth certificates used to support the claims for the alleged “Paper Children” were falsified and the children never existed. It was also determined that Miss Sishi had no family ties to the other individuals she claimed had deceased.

Miss Sishi pleaded guilty to 38 counts of fraud, for submitting these false claims involving Paper Children and unrelated deceased individuals. On 13 March 2025, she was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, with two years suspended for five years, on the condition that she is not convicted of fraud during the suspension period.

Miss Sishi still faces trial for the alleged murder of her sister, a crime for which she is accused of hiring a hitman in a scheme to collect on an insurance payout.

Congratulations to our Investigators, Law Enforcement Agencies, Members and everyone involved in this ongoing investigation!

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