NATIONAL NEWS - MiWay is considering laying criminal charges against the person behind an apparent racist email that’s gone viral.
A screenshot of an email, purportedly between Miway officials, says that the company had decided to reject 90% of the claims from black people, referring to them as baboons.
CEO Rene Otto says they have enlisted the help of an independent forensic expert after an internal probe linked the email to a disgruntled client.
Otto says a client whose claim was rejected fabricated the email.
“As far as we could establish in the hour or so that we’ve been able to look into it, it was a disgruntled client who was unhappy because we couldn’t pay his claim. He had email contact with us because in the process of validating the claim, we did send the emails. That’s how he got a name of a MiWay staff member, and clearly, he thought the way to punish us was the way he did.
MiWay considers criminal charges against person behind racist email
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Posted on: 08:47 Fri, 21 July 2017
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