Oliver Morin, AFP Tokyo Sexwale insisted the Heritage Trust Fund was real, despite National Treasury and the Reserve Bank saying he had been scammed. Sexwale refused to say how much he was to be paid for acting as a political broker for the fund. The Hawks said a case of fraud, alternatively theft, was opened with regard to the so-called Heritage Fund. Businessman Tokyo Sexwale refused to disclose how much money he would have been paid by a "Heritage Trust Fund", if he had succeeded in using his political connections to persuade the South African government to take loans from the fund, rather than the International Monetary Fund (IMF).