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Agrizzi in court over allegedly fraudulent Bosasa prison tenders

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Agrizzi, the controversial whistle-blower who highlighted alleged corruption leading to Bosasa securing lucrative government tenders for years on end, appeared in the specialised commercial crimes court in Pretoria on Wednesday.

“The investigating directorate prosecutors and the legal team of the accused agreed to meet for a pre-trail conference and interlocutory issues before that date,” said Twala.Head of the investigating directorate, advocate Hermione Cronje, said that while these four were currently the only ones charged with the tender scandal, more arrests could be made as widespread corruption had played out in the awarding of the tenders.

“’This prosecution deals with the early days of corruption perpetrated by Bosasa. The company and its subsidiaries and affiliates went on to secure in excess of R34bn in government contracts from a range of government departments at all levels of government, even after the corruption in these four initial tenders was laid bare in 2010,” Cronje was quoted as saying.

Agrizzi made damning allegations that Bosasa had paid R75m in bribes each year to secure government tenders. The bulk of these funds — about R40m — had reportedly been forked out to the departments of justice and correctional services to secure tenders.

 

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