Panday allegedly paid about R30,000 for a birthday bash for Ngobeni's husband, Maj-Gen Lucas Ngobeni. It has been alleged that Panday, who has links to former president Jacob Zuma, was then favoured by Ngobeni to obtain a police accommodation contract during the 2010 Soccer World Cup. It is alleged that Panday inflated prices and pocketed about R60m.
McBride said he was approached by Brig Lawrence Kemp, the police's provincial head of financial services, who indicated that there appeared to be irregularities with the acquisition of certain services in the police. "On face value, it was clear there were some irregularities at supply chain management at the provincial level of [the police]. All transactions during the World Cup period had gone through the books of one particular businessman in KZN, Thoshan Panday," Booysen said. After the case was assigned, Booysen said he received a call from Ngobeni asking what the investigation was about.
"She told me to stop the investigation. She had the right to give me instructions, but not to tell me to stop an investigation. That, in my view, was an unlawful instruction," he said.He said he received another call from Ngobeni on May 8 2010."She was very irritated and she shouted at me. She said to me 'I told you people to stop this investigation'. I tried to convince her that the investigation had stopped," Booysen said.
"I suspected certain individuals from supply chain management such as Col Navin Madhoe, who had a close relationship with Ngobeni, got wind of the investigation and alerted her to it."
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