Curious coincidences in investigations relating to questionable police service providers led the National Prosecuting Authority to believe that a family racket based in Pretoria uses Sassa pensioners, friends and family as a front to obscure their crooked dealings with the state.
Three men including a senior government official have shown they are capable of using their connections to undermine investigations into charges of corruption and defeating the ends of justice against them.
A senior Eastern Cape government official and two businessman appeared in the East London Magistrates’ Court on Monday accused of bribing criminal investigators from the National Prosecuting Authority’s Investigating Directorate.