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Despite Bosasa contracts being found to be illegal by the SIU in 2009, efforts to bring those fingered to book bore no fruit until the submission of Bosasa-related evidence to the StateCaptureInquiry, writes valenciatalane SundayIndy

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Linda Mti and Patrick Gillingham. These are the two names former chief operations officer at Bosasa - now African Global Operations - Angelo Agrizzi, placed at the centre of the lucrative, multi-million-rand prison contract scheme that helped the company coin it for years. The contracts were found to be illegal by the Special Investigating Unit in 2009, as the prescribed state procurement processes were not followed in securing them.

Bosasa at the time had experience in this field, with a contract for Lindela Repatriation Centre in Krugersdorp, which it secured with the Department of Home Affairs in the 1990s. An agreement between the two sides was struck: as long as Bosasa had the contract, the public officials would always get a cut for helping to seal the deal. The loyalty of the Bosasa executives involved was bought in the same way.

Agrizzi told the inquiry that Bosasa would transfer a certain amount to a cash-based business that would return it in cash via an agent, and would then be distributed to the beneficiaries. To keep track of who was paid what amount when, Agrizzi had a number of “little black books” that he kept in the office. Around 80 public officials were paid monthly cash bribes by Bosasa at one time or another.

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valenciatalane SundayIndy And now? Those implicated are arrested?

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