State security deputy minister Zizi Kodwa was fingered on Wednesday for allegedly having benefitted from "suspicious" payments to the tune of R325,000 from businessman Jehan Mackay.
This emerged during the testimony of Steven Powell from ENS Forensics, who is giving evidence about EOH at the state capture inquiry.
Powell detailed how Mackay of EOH made several "suspicious" payments to "politically exposed" persons between 2015 and 2017.
At the time, Kodwa was the ANC's national spokesperson.
The first payment to Kodwa's account, said Powell, was R80,000 on May 26 2015.
This was followed by a payment of R45,000 to Kodwa six weeks later, before he received R50,000 on October 29 the same year.
November 2015 was the month of payments raining like manna from heaven to Kodwa from Mackay.
That month alone, Kodwa's bank account received R130,000 paid in three tranches of two separate payments of R50,000 and one of R30,000.
The last payment to Kodwa in 2015 was on December 4, an amount of R40,000, before the final payment of R30,000 in February 2016.
However, Kodwa was not the only political blessee who is alleged to have benefitted from Mackay's generosity. Siyabulela Sintwa, who worked at former ANC president Jacob Zuma's office at Luthuli House, and former ANCYL treasurer-general Reggie Nkabinde also allegedly received payments from the same source.
Nkabinde scored a R500,000 once-off payment on June 29 2017, according to the testimony.
For Sintwa, it was several payments adding up to R271,600.
Powell said Mackay made these payments soon after he would have received deposits from an entity belonging to EOH.
"They were deposits into Mr Mackay’s account coming from an entity from TSS (Tactical Software Solutions)," he said. "TSS was a company acquired by EOH in 2011."
Powell's testimony continues at the state capture inquiry.
