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The NPA's Asset Forfeiture Unit has been granted an order against properties valued at R20 million belonging to corruption accused in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro.
The Asset Forfeiture Unit’s recovery of R35m misappropriated by elements of the Eastern Cape transport industry has revealed how Covid-19 Ters money was rampantly abused.
The recovery of R35m unlawfully misappropriated by elements in the Eastern Cape transport industry from the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s Covid-19 Ters funding may be the tip of a large and dirty iceberg. Beneficiaries appeared to include government employees and dead people. This tipped off the UIF to dirty dealings at a time when it was doing its first basic audit of payments totalling some R200m to transport umbrella body Eastern Cape Transport Tertiary Co-operative (ETCC) and dozens of it...
The NPA said Zandisile Qupe purchased the house in cash in February 2015 for R3 million, which it believes he got from R56.4 million siphoned from the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro.
Eastern Cape taxi associations in R220m Covid-19 TERS fund scandal News24 31 Jul 2021, 05:41 GMT+10 The NPA's Asset Forfeiture Unit has frozen 25 bank accounts belonging to different taxi associations in the Eastern Cape. The state, under the Unemployment Insurance Funds' special Covid-19 temporary relief scheme, paid R220m to 66 taxi associations in 2020. UIF discovered during auditing that among the beneficiaries were 22 dead people, 22 government employees, and an incarcerated person. The state has launched a bid to claw back a portion of R220 million it gave to 66 Eastern Cape taxi assoc...