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Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane will face perjury charges in court.
This was confirmed by the National Prosecutor’s Office in a statement on Tuesday night.
“The NPA has received several inquiries from the media regarding the circulation of official documents on the Public Protector, including subpoenas, accusations and private correspondence between the Director of the Pretoria Public Prosecutor’s Office and the investigation team,” the statement read. release.
“Therefore, the NPA wishes to confirm that the DPP did in fact make the decision to prosecute after carefully evaluating the evidence presented by the Hawks. This is in line with the policy of the prosecution and the law. “
In another statement, Colonel Katlego Mogale of the Crime Priority Investigation Directorate (Hawks) said that they have “received today a summons for the Head of an institution established in terms of Chapter 9 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. [Tuesday]”.
“The incumbent received the summons and is scheduled to appear in Pretoria trial court on January 21, 2021,” the statement said.
“The citation contains three counts of purjury.
“The DPCI will not be further involved in this matter until the time the holder appears in court,” he concluded.
This after Accountability Now in October 2019 asked the Legal Practice Council (LPC) to remove Mkhwebane from the list of advocates of perjury and attempt to deceive the court.
It arose from a Constitutional Court ruling that Mkhwebane had acted in bad faith and presented a “series of falsehoods” in the Absa / Bankorp case.
Hoffman told the LPC: “As you know, it is intolerable for a court officer to be found to be lying under oath.
“Our highest court has ruled so with respect to Ms. Mkhwebane. His response that the court ruling creates a bad precedent is derogatory to the court and does not give it credit. “
The majority ruling of the Constitutional Court upheld a February 2018 Gauteng High Court ruling that Mkhwebane would pay 15% of the Reserve Bank of South Africa’s legal fees in the Absa / Bankorp review case.
His corrective action that Absa should return 1.2 billion rand for an apartheid-era bailout to its subsidiary and that the central bank’s mandate should be extended was shelved.
In August 2019, the Hawks confirmed they were investigating Mkhwebane after Accountability Now filed a complaint, which brought criminal charges of perjury and overturned the purposes of justice against him.
He also filed a complaint for mismanagement against him with the same office he directs.
This is a developing story.
(Compiled by Carina Koen)
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