If former health minister Zweli Mkhize and his family have been celebrating the decision by Parliament’s ethics committee to clear him in regard to the Digital Vibes affair, they may want to put the cork back in the champagne bottle. Mkhize’s family may now be held liable for payments of nearly R5-million related to the contentious contract.
The Special Investigating Unit has been given the go-ahead to join five additional respondents in its ongoing legal bid to recover allegedly corrupt proceeds stemming from the Department of Health’s R150-million Digital Vibes contract.
In other words, Mkhize had been bribed via payments to his family for his alleged role in getting his former department to sign off on the Digital Vibes deal, or so the SIU argues.revealed how some of the proceeds from the contract moved from Digital Vibes to entities like Mateta Projects and Sirela Trading, before being paid into the Mkhize accounts.
The payments were supposedly for cattle transactions and other legitimate reasons relating to the parties’ farming and other business activities. In the latter case, the SIU not only hopes to recover the full amount of R150-million from the likes of Digital Vibes and the newest respondents. It also wants the contract to be reviewed and set aside.
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