SIU acts on Life Esidimeni R10.6m fraud

Johannesburg - The Special Investigating Unit has pounced on government officials and public representatives who defrauded the government of more than R10.6 million under the guise of caring for psychiatric patients at Life Esidimeni.

On Thursday, the SIU revealed its civil actions against several NGOs for making false claims against the Gauteng Health Department while psychiatric patients were under their care. According to evidence at the Moseneke Inquiry into the Life Esidimeni saga, several patients were housed at Precious Angels and others in Pretoria but most did not have a licence to take care of such patients, the inquiry found.

The HSACF includes civil society, health sector regulators, law enforcement agencies and government departments and is chaired by SIU head advocate Andy Mothibi.He also revealed that an urgent interim court application has been at the Special Tribunal of the SIU to speed up with the process to freeze the pension worth more than R2 million of former HOD of Gauteng Health Dr Selebano.

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