A medical doctor, whose credentials were used in a fraudulent submission declaring the death of the estranged wife of a prominent bishop to the department of home affairs, says he has no record of such a patient nor did he issue the death report.

Dr Moses Poane, a general practitioner based in Mabopane, Pretoria, where an alleged wide-scale fraud was undertaken to certify the wife of Michael Sandlana, the leader of a faction of the International Pentecost Holiness Church (IPHC), dead was visited by police investigators yesterday...