Mayor Mongameli Bobani laughed hysterically as a reporter asked him about the raid on his office and home on Tuesday
In October‚ the Hawks seized documents‚ cellphones and laptops in another probe linked to the Integrated Public Transport System.
Bobani's attorney‚ Danie Gouws‚ confirmed the raid this week stems from the Milongani forensic report. The Milongani draft report by PricewaterhouseCoopers details allegations of tender rigging‚ fraud and collusion by officials in the municipality's public health department.The probe found that about R18.5m of the total that was paid to Milongani under the guise of"waste diversion and beneficiation" was actually for the salaries of six interns and a retired metro employee paid through Milongani. But the salaries paid to the staff over 16 months actually amounted to R1.
Bobani‚ who was political head of the public health department for the latter part of Milongani’s three-year contract‚ was not named as having done anything untoward in the draft report seen by The Herald.Bobani was fired from the position in May 2017 by then mayor Athol Trollip amid claims that irregular payments had been made to Milongani while Bobani held the position in public health.
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