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Sunday Times reports that a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report has found that suspended Gauteng health head of department (HOD) Lesiba Malotana benefitted to the tune of R1.6m in questionable ATM cash deposits, suspected to be linked to the R1.8bn looting at Tembisa Hospital.
The lifestyle audit report by the SIU describes Malotana as a “high-risk” individual and requests a special proclamation for a deeper forensic investigation into his financial affairs. Malotana was suspended recently by Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi after he received the report, which was part of a widescale lifestyle audit of the provincial government’s senior officials. According to the report – attached as an annexure to a letter by Malotana’s lawyers to Lesufi, challenging his suspension – the SIU found he had pocketed questionable financial benefits of R1.6m in cash transactions over a period of three years.
The SIU also raised concerns about Malotana’s six dubious bank accounts, some of which were not disclosed to the department. It is into these bank accounts that cash deposits – some as large as R300,000 – were made, at various ATMs across Gauteng. According to the SIU, Malotana claimed these were business transactions linked to his “egg farming business” in Limpopo, but could not explain why all the deposits were made in Gauteng. According to the report, an amount of R1,627,300 in cash deposits was traced across several bank accounts from commercial activities that could not be reconciled with Malotana’s salary. Approached for comment on Friday, Malotana said he was challenging his suspension in the high court on an urgent basis.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kgothatso Madisa at Sunday Times (subscriber access only)
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