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Original Post Date: 2004-03-01 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/1/2004 1:48:58 PM
S.Africa: Govt Corruption: Tender Scam of R50 million
[Let’s take a look at some corruption for a change. The ANC has a most fascinating process. Often they will appoint a man to a position. He might end up calling in his wife as a “consultant”. In fact, you will OFTEN see husband and wife teams from the ANC working together. I’ll keep a look out for such stories to illustrate the point. There is some serious nepotism and favouritism going on and its done quite openly.
In this case, we see some inventive government officials involved in a tendering scam. This little pair were creative – they stole R50 million rand!!!! Jan]
Nelspruit – Mpumalanga deputy director general Riena Charles and her tycoon brother-in-law Percy Siboza appeared briefly in court on Monday on multiple corruption, theft, fraud, and mismanagement charges.
The two were not asked to plead and were released on bail by the Pretoria regional court when their case was postponed to May 17 to allow for further investigation and possibly further arrests by the elite Scorpions’ unit.
The two are accused of masterminding a series of tender scams that systematically milked the taxpayer of an estimated R50 million over a two-year period.
Charles, who is on R30,000 bail, faces two fraud charges and two alleged criminal transgressions of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) for allegedly subverting government tender procedures while she headed Mpumalanga’s health department.
Siboza faces a string of theft, fraud, corruption, and tax evasion charges relating to his dealings with Mpumalanga’s health and public works departments, and for allegedly swindling Value Added Tax while also failing to declare any income at all on his personal tax returns.
Legal papers handed to court by the prosecution meanwhile claim Charles deliberately abused her authority to illegally grant Siboza at least two major contracts totalling R3.6m for electrical generators at government hospitals.
The generators were allegedly supplied to hospitals which did not need then, and were in some cases never delivered at all. The PFMA charges, relating to alleged mismanagement and dereliction of duty, are the first recorded criminal prosecution of a South African government official for allegedly failing to do their duty.
Siboza, a regional National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (NAFCOC) leader, is on R40 000 bail and faces over 200-pages of forensic evidence naming him as the kingpin in a network of front companies that systematically defrauded.
The dossier, compiled by independent auditors, includes prima facie evidence that at least one R30m equipment order for provincial hospitals was deliberately and artificially ‘padded’, resulting in fruitless expenditure of R13.7m.
Edited by Tisha Steyn
Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/New…br>