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According to Sipho Ngwema of the NPA, Simbini briefly appeared in the Pretoria Commercial Crimes Court on bribery charges. He also faces charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering.
Ngwema said: “In October 2020, Impossible Services claimed to have laid off 6,647 employees from their jobs. However, the company had only one employee, Simbini, prior to the statements made to the FIU. Based on these anomalies, it appears that Impossible Services had no other employees than Simbini, who is a director.
“Impossible Services received R111,003,088.73 in the company’s bank account based on the fraudulent claim. Subsequent investigations revealed that the employees were not Impossible Services employees and that the company was fraudulently using people’s identity documents to claim normal UIF and Covid-19 TERS benefits without their knowledge.
“Therefore, the R111m was fraudulently paid to the company.”
The court issued an order for the AFU to freeze the bank accounts linked to businessman Hammanskraal and Impossible Services. The Hawks arrested Simbini on November 13 after he was “caught red-handed bribing an official from the Department of Employment and Labor.”
Ngwema said that research on Simbini’s claims continued.
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