All credit balances and interest in the bank accounts of a SAPS supplier who faked that she was BEE compliant, and who scored a R56-million contract to brand police vehicles, have been forfeited to the state under provisions of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act.
The judgment was delivered on 15 May by Judge AJ Barnard in the North Gauteng High Court in an application brought by the National Director of Public Prosecutions for the civil forfeiture of property in terms of Chapter 6 of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act.The contents of the bank accounts of Vatika Trading and Projects Ltd, Argan Auto Mechanical Innovation and Towing Ltd, Gautools Ltd, Kgotho Trading Enterprise 18, and Umbanathi Trading and Projects have now been forfeited to the state.
Sitole had called for the investigation of contract irregularities within SAPS, particularly related to a national tender bid for the branding of SAPS vehicles. Joubert had attached to the bid an exempted micro-enterprise BEE verification certificate, even while she did not meet any requirements and because Vatika was in fact “100% white female-owned”.
Evidence had shown that, had the tender contract been awarded to any other service provider at realistic market-related prices, “the SAPS would have saved the National Treasury and therefore the South African tax-payers approximately R30-million”. On 7 September 2017, Joubert and K Prithviray had won the tender worth R50-million. Joubert was paid R45,642,642, 30 while K Prithviray had received R12,245,117,72.
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