Johannesburg – Religious leaders are increasingly being used to promote financial products, some of which are not legitimate.

This is according to Eckhard Volker, managing director of Integrated Forensic Accounting Services. In an interview with Fin24, Volker explained that religious leaders were becoming a prominent element in the marketing of some money schemes.

“This is a problem because people completely trust their pastors. They take whatever their pastors tell them as absolute proof,” he said.