OPINION: Lavish bribe system helped Bosasa score lucrative contracts
When the commission of inquiry into state capture resumed its hearings in the middle of January, it was to hear the evidence of a witness whose identity had been withheld until the last minute, owing to security issues.
With the longest witness testimony heard at the inquiry to date - Agrizzi spent eight days in the chair - and the highest number of people implicated ever, the Bosasa files named everyone from middle and executive level public officials, Cabinet ministers and parliamentarians to former president Jacob Zuma in the large scheme allegedly meant to establish and maintain the company as a tender monopoly in the otherwise inconspicuous Department of Correctional Services.
Bosasa would be paid, then transfer an agreed-upon amount to a cash-based business that would return it in cash form via an agent, and then it would be distributed to the relevant targets. Watson, he said, would openly give bags of money to different Bosasa officials to facilitate bribes to those public officials with whom they associated on various projects they managed for government.
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