GUPTALEAKS: Ace Magashule, the MEC and the R2m Gupta bribe By News24
In an attempt to muscle in on a R140-million consultancy deal in 2011, one Gupta brother allegedly offered former Free State MEC for economic development Mxolisi Dukwana a R2-million bribe in exchange for his approval of Gupta-linked businessmen being awarded the contract.
On Friday morning, Dukwana appeared before the Zondo Commission of inquiry into State Capture. He is expected to reveal the attempted bribe and more details of State Capture in the Free State. Nulane was owned by Gupta-linked businessman and former Transnet board member Iqbal Sharma while his American business partner John Thomas owned California-based P3.Sipping his Grapetizer, he refused the cash bribe as well.
which launched this weekend, have placed ANC secretary general and former Free State Premier Ace Magashule at the centre of this project. At the time, News24 requested comment from Magashule, who did not respond but released a statement following the publication of the story, denying Dukwana’s allegations that Magashule took him to the 2011 meeting with the Gupta family.
In October last year, Magashule was directly linked to the CFT project by his former MEC for economic development, Mxolisi Dukwana, who filed an Anton Piller application to seize and preserve documents in the possession of the provincial government. On both occasions the new city project was discussed, the insider claimed. During the first meeting, they said, the former MEC for economic development Mxolisi Dukwana as well as Sharma and Thomas, the owners of Nulane and P3, were also present.
The sub-contracting agreement endeavours to give Global credit for the design of the master plan for the City of Tomorrow and bears remarkable similarities to the Master Plan agreement between FS economic development and the P3/Nulane consortium – down to the schedule of work which is attached as an annexure.
The agreement supported one insider’s claim that the Gupta family wanted 70% of the profits in exchange for facilitating the deal.
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