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GroundUp reports that the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) obtained an urgent interdict earlier this week to prevent an attorney from paying out the proceeds of the sale of a house linked to William Huma, an advocate and former National Lotteries Commission (NLC) board member, which was bought using Lottery funds.
The Special Tribunal granted the SIU an interim interdict restraining the conveyancing attorneys from making any payments pending the finalisation of the main forfeiture application, which is set to be heard on 7 March 2025. The SIU went to court on Tuesday to launch an application to stop the disbursement of funds after it received a tip-off that the house had been sold. The order does not halt the sale, only the disbursement of the transfer of funds to Huma. “The SIU has successfully obtained an interim interdict from the Special Tribunal to preserve R10-million in proceeds from the sale of a Waterkloof, Pretoria, mansion, which is linked to an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption and maladministration involving the NLC,” a SIU statement indicated. Huma bought the house for R4-million in December 2003 and registered a bond for R8-million in 2017. This means that the actual price could have been as high as R18-million. The house is situated in a luxury private estate abutting a golf course in Waterkloof, an upmarket Pretoria suburb. It is owned by the BDH Group, a private company in which Huma is the sole director. While serving as an NLC board member, Huma allegedly misused his position to influence the allocation of NLC grant funding to entities controlled by his family, the SIU said. It claimed that over R21-million had been misappropriated.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Raymond Joseph at GroundUp
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