Deposits into Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bank accounts ran to hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously identified by probes into state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Citing two unnamed people familiar with flows into Najib’s accounts and a person familiar with[…]
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has asked the country’s High Court to declare two contracts awarded to a security company invalid two months after asking for the cancellation of an agreement to supply locomotives. Prasa wants two contracts awarded to Siyangena Technologies worth about R4 billion ($250[…]
The City of Cape Town’s crackdown on housing fraud has seen it secure two arrests within the last month, both in relation to fraudsters who have attempted to charge desperate and unsuspecting family’s money in order to access non-existent housing opportunities. The City has also been beset by a number[…]
Five South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) officials have been convicted on charges of corruption in relation to the distribution of fraudulent grants. The verdict comes after a broader investigation by the agency and the Provincial Department of Social Development into a spate of illegal cash deductions from the accounts[…]
The case against four City of Cape Town licensing officials, accused of fraud and corruption, has been postponed for further investigation. The council employees appeared briefly in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning. They were appearing for more than 100 cases between them relating to the issuing of[…]
South Africa’s “youngest self-made millionaire” has been accused of plagiarising his training company’s course material and falsely claiming to have made R30 million in profit. After 23-year-old Sandile Shezi shared his success story in the media, several industry players contacted News24 raising suspicion over the operations of his company Global[…]
Dodgy tenders, paying rent for vacant buildings and forking out millions for employees improperly fired are reportedly some of the findings in Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s as yet unreleased provisional report on parastatal Passenger Rail Agency of SA. Some of her provisional findings in the report Missing Tracks, dated March[…]
Four council officials are expected to appear in court on Wednesday after reportedly being arrested on charges relating to fraud and corruption. Three clerks were arrested on Tuesday at the City of Cape Town’s Civic Centre offices while a fourth official, who had been on sick leave, was arrested at[…]
The National Prosecuting Authority on Monday confirmed that fraud and corruption charges against former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli and two others had been struck off the roll. “I can confirm that the matter was heard in court and it was struck off the roll,”said NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku. “This[…]
Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba will go on trial for alleged fraud and perjury on August 19 in the Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria, a court official said. Jiba will have to answer to allegations of fraud and perjury believed to stem from her failed bid to lay[…]
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