The Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee has heard G4S dropped the ball as early as 2018 when Thabo Bester virtually attended a glamourous event in Sandton under a false identity. ECRNewsWatch
The now widely circulated clip shows A-listers attending the launch of 21st Century Media, a production company, which turned out to be a scam, and which Bester claimed to be the New York-based chairman of.Fugitives Thabo Bester, Nandipha Magudumana extradited, back in SA
Appearing before the committee on Thursday, Justice Edwin Cameron, who heads up the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services, said the 2018 incident should have been the first of a series of red flags. "The meta-data on it could have been examined. That video has been available for months, it was released by GroundUp months ago.
"Yesterday we were given evasive answers about the video, so the underscores not only was he able to do such extensive presentations, he was able from prison or on hospital leave to hook up to a sufficiently connected system to appear on video at the Santon Convention Centre all of it beggars belief.”Executives from G4S, the security company contracted by government to manage the Mangaung Correctional Centre, where Bester escaped, also appeared before the committee.
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