PODCAST | Zondo Commission begins to bear fruit as asbestos audit arrests wow SA

The Hawks on Wednesday arrested six people involved in the alleged masterminding of a R200m asbestos audit project in the Free State.

Hawks spokesperson Brig Hangwani Mulaudzi said that, “among those arrested are three senior government officials, three businessmen and five companies”.

“The accused face 60 charges which include corruption, fraud, money laundering, contravention of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act (Precca) as well as contravention of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).”

In this episode of Sunday Times Politics Weekly, the politics team looks deeper into the arrests and testimony on the matter heard at the commission of inquiry into state capture.

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