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Senior officials in the prime minister’s office accused of corruption include CFO Ziphathe Cibane and supply chain manager Nonhlanhla Hlongwa.
One of the properties seized by the NPA Asset Forfeiture Unit in a matter related to a corrupt catering tender at the KwaZulu-Natal prime minister’s office. Image: supplied
DURBAN – The Asset Forfeiture Unit has seized several real estate and vehicles belonging to five staff members in the office of KwaZulu-Natal Prime Minister Sihle Zikalala and his four co-defendants in a multi-million dollar corruption case.
Senior officials in the prime minister’s office accused of corruption include CFO Ziphathe Cibane and supply chain manager Nonhlanhla Hlongwa.
The nine defendants are alleged to have rigged a catering tender worth more than 20 million rand.
Members of Prime Minister Zikalala’s staff and his co-defendants were arrested between July and October this year.
The spokesman for the National Tax Authority (NPA), Sipho Ngwema, said that the assets seized from the defendants would be kept under guardianship pending the outcome of the criminal trial.
“The Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Tax Authority in KZN has seized property and assets worth about 23 million rand belonging to the CFO and other staff of the Prime Minister’s office in KwaZulu-Natal.”
The defendants are free on bail.
They are expected to return to the Durban Commercial Crimes Court in April next year.
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