{"id":8805,"date":"2013-08-08T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8805"},"modified":"2013-08-08T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:08:21","slug":"top-official-arrested-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8805","title":{"rendered":"Top official arrested for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/corruption2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8106\" alt=\"corruption2\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/corruption2.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>A top official in the Mpumalanga safety and security department and a company director were arrested on Thursday for irregularities with a multi-million rand tender, the Hawks said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The official and the security company director are facing charges of fraud and corruption over a security tender to guard the department&#8217;s offices,&#8221; said Captain Paul Ramaloko.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official, who had the final say about who got the tender when it was awarded in 2011, also faced a charge of contravening the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramaloko said investigators found the company did not meet the requirements for the tender.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was also discovered that the company submitted false tax certificates during the application process,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company received R4 million a month from the department for its security services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Investigations into the case continue. More arrests are expected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two were expected to appear soon in the Nelspruit Magistrate&#8217;s Court. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top official in the Mpumalanga safety and security department and a company director were arrested on Thursday for irregularities with a multi-million rand tender, the Hawks said. &#8220;The official and the security company director are facing charges of fraud and corruption over a security tender to guard the department&#8217;s offices,&#8221; said Captain Paul Ramaloko. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top official arrested for corruption&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[219,34,1255,4923],"class_list":["post-8805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-hawks","tag-mpumalanga-safety-and-security-department"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/corruption2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8806,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions\/8806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}