🔒 A string of letters between former NPA boss Shaun Abrahams and Hawks head Godfrey Lebeya reveal how a contractual dispute with a forensic firm investigating Bosasa led to delays in the arrest of those implicated in the prison tenders corruption scandal.
Missives: Shaun Abrahams says he wrote to Hawks head Godfrey Lebeya to chase up the process of prosecuting Bosasa and prisons officials for corruption. Photo: Alaister Russell/Gallo Images/Sunday Times
A string of letters between former National Prosecuting Authority boss Shaun Abrahams and Hawks head Godfrey Lebeya reveal how a contractual dispute with a forensic firm investigating Bosasa led to delays in the arrest of those implicated in the prison tenders corruption scandal. In one letter, from Abrahams to Lebeya in August last year requesting Lebeya’s intervention, the NPA head raised serious concerns about delays in finalising Integrated Forensic Accounting Services’s investigation into Bosasa’s financials.
The forensic firm’s findings, once finalised, would be part of the evidence used in January 2019 to charge officials from the department of correctional services and Bosasa’s executives implicated in the Special Investigations Unit’s 2009 draft report into allegations of corruption. “The team has held several meetings with the investigator assigned and as a result two issues remain outstanding,” Abrahams wrote in a letter dated August 10 2018. “The first being the provision of hard copies of the documents the prosecution intend to rely on to prove the allegations in a docket format.
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