State capture and corruption accused Carlos Bonifacio, chief accountant of the now defunct former government service provider Bosasa, has had all criminal charges against him withdrawn by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
The withdrawal comes a month after TimesLIVE reported that the Investigative Directorate , the long arm of the NPA established to deal with state capture cases, had claimed that the case against Bonifacio and his former co-accused was progressing well.
Their court case was eventually separated from that of their co-accused, who are set to appear in the Pretoria high court on July 22. Zondo found that Bosasa allegedly bribed a swathe of politicians, government officials as well as former president Jacob Zuma. He said those who implicated him had not come forward to say “mea culpa, but rather because they were driven by revenge for the total destruction of the Wastons irrespective of what they did or did not do.”
“I was tied to these people by association and nothing more. Names popped up during the commission and the NPA cast their net wide and caught people. It was up to us to prove our innocence.”
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