DA gives NPA deadline for answers on prosecution of PE’s security boss

09 May 2016 - 11:54 By TMG Digital

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has given National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams 14 days to explain why Nelson Mandela Bay’s safety and security head Linda Mti has not been prosecuted. “The DA has fought Mti’s appointment …since it was first proposed by the broken promises mayor‚ Danny Jordaan‚” Athol Trollip said on Sunday.“I write to request your disclosure of reasons as to why Mr Linda Mti has not yet been prosecuted for the findings of corruption and accepting bribes‚ made by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the investigation into same by the SAPS against Mr Mti in 2009‚ and handed over to the NPA for prosecution at that time”. Trollip‚ the DA’s mayoral candidate for the metro‚ said that‚ “as prisons commissioner in 2004/5‚ Mti is alleged to have irregularly awarded tenders to Bosasa to the value of approximately R2-billion”.“The SIU began investigating Mti after it was found that a Bosasa company secretary had allegedly registered a company in Mti’s name‚ which apparently never traded.“The SIU subpoenaed a selection of banking documents and found that Bosasa had paid bribes to Mti in the form of cars and houses. This SIU investigation began in 2007 and ended in 2009.“The completed investigation was handed over to yourselves‚ and then on to the police for further investigation. After the completion of the further police investigation‚ the docket was returned to the NPA for prosecution.”Trollip said that since then nothing appears to have happened.“As you will know‚ Mti has now been appointed to a position of high office in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality‚ and given the enormity of the alleged bribery and corruption‚ in defence of our Constitution and in the interests of fighting corruption and fraud‚ I ask that you respond in writing within the next fourteen (14) days.”..

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