The Hawks’ National Clean Audit Task Team swooped on the houses of various eThekwini officials and private individuals believed to be involved in corruption worth an estimated R200 million. | DailyNewsSA
Durban - The Hawks’ National Clean Audit Task Team swooped on the houses of various eThekwini officials and private individuals believed to be involved in corruption worth an estimated R200 million.A source said the officials are suspected of colluding with private individuals to register ghost companies, and looted the department of millions in contracts. Eleven properties were raided. Four of these belong to the municipal officials implicated and close relatives.
One of the properties is located on Montrose Avenue in Hillcrest, where the Hawks arrived in three vehicles at 6am and knocked on the gate. A woman started screaming from inside the house and an officer asked people inside the property, “Can’t you see that we are police officers through the cameras on your property?”
“It is alleged municipal officials endorsed certain companies and also registered fictitious businesses in order for them to be awarded lucrative contracts, thus benefiting from unlawful and fraudulent payments. Most of the companies were not even registered on the municipality’s database.”
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