Casambo Exclusive Guest Lodge linked to Eskom water transport corruption is auctioned to recover money Eskom lost
Casambo Exclusive Guest Lodge in Mpumalanga will be auctioned in an online timed auction from Tuesday 26 March 2024 from 10h00 to Thursday 28 March 2024 at 12h00. The sale of the property comes after the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) of the National Prosecuting Authority received an unopposed forfeiture […]
SAP ordered to pay back R500 million earned from invalid Eskom contracts
Systems Applications Products (SAP) has been ordered by the Special Tribunal to pay the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) R500 million within seven days. The order stems from a settlement agreement reached by SIU and SAP on the validity of two contracts awarded by Eskom, which was upheld by the Special Tribunal. Between 2013 and 2016, […]
Optimum Coal Mine pays back over R6.9 million in unpaid motor licensing fees and penalties
Optimum Coal Mine has settled its outstanding motor licensing fees and penalties for the period between January 2018 and November 2022 with a payment of over R6.9 million. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) recovered the funds as part of an investigation into the affairs of the Department of Transport. The payment is a result of […]
University of Pretoria settles R400 million due to NSFAS in unallocated funds
The University of Pretoria (UP) has fully paid R 400 million that is due to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) in unallocated funds. The money was paid in four instalments of R100 million into the Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) Trust account, bringing the total number of recoveries to R 937 926 351 received […]
SCOPA and SIU sign memorandum of understanding
Parliament, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 – The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Parliament.The primary purpose of the MoU is to strengthen the relationship between SCOPA and the SIU in relation to investigating and reporting on matters pertaining to irregular, fruitless, […]
Pretoria doctor fails to block SIU investigation relating to R20 million circumcision funding from NLC
The High Court of South Africa: Gauteng Division, Pretoria, has dismissed, with costs, an application brought by Dr John Marite to appeal an earlier judgment, which dismissed his bid to interdict an investigation by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) in the affairs of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) involving approximately R20.2 million grant funding. In […]
SIU authorised to investigate Free State Public Works & Human Settlement Department, Free State Provincial Legislature and KZN Transport Department
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed two proclamations authorising the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate allegations of serious maladministration in the affairs of the Free State Department of Public Works & Infrastructure and Human Settlements, and the Free State Provincial Legislature; and KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport, and to recover any financial losses suffered by the […]
SIU and Hawks raid accounting firm in Kimberly as part of R1.4 billion NLC investigation
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation, commonly known as the Hawks, on Wednesday, 21 February 2024, raided an accounting firm in Kimberley, Northern Cape, in search of evidence to assist with the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) investigation. The SIU was granted a search and seizure warrant by the Magistrate […]
Gauteng Health PPE contract declared invalid and unlawful, service provider ordered to pay back profit earned from R113.2 million contract
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) welcomes the order of the Special Tribunal which declared a R113,250,000.00 personal protective equipment (PPE) contract awarded to LNG by the Gauteng Department of Health as invalid and unlawful. In a default judgment handed down on 7 February 2024, the Tribunal ordered that LNG be divested of all profits enjoyed […]
SIU authorised to investigate Home Affairs and PRASA
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed two proclamations authorising the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate allegations of serious maladministration in the affairs of Department of Home Affairs and Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), and improper or unlawful conduct by officials or employees of the State entities, and to recover any financial losses suffered […]