Hawks squeeze Nene to help nail Gordhan
The Hawks are going all-out to build their case against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan‚ even approaching his predecessor‚ Nhlanhla Nene‚ in a bid to make him a state witness‚ the Sunday Times reported. The newspaper said it could reveal that Hawks investigators met Nene and his lawyer in Johannesburg on Thursday afternoon in a bid to bolster three criminal charges against Gordhan.Gordhan tells of government’s R500-billion guarantees worryGordhan has warned that state-owned enterprises (SOE) must be managed properly as mistakes in these companies could result in billions of rands to be paid in guarantees to which government has already committed. But while senior officials at the Hawks claimed that the meeting resulted in Nene agreeing to testify against his successor‚ a source close to the former minister dismissed this‚ saying the anticorruption unit was "on a fishing expedition". Approached for comment on Friday‚ Nene said he was "not at liberty to discuss the meeting" with the Hawks‚ the report said...
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