Zondo: Ace Magashule and Mosebenzi Zwane helped Guptas milk Vrede dairy project - The final Zondo report recommends that law enforcement agencies investigate the pair for their part in the failed R280-million project
The report, which detailed allegations relating to the Gupta-linked dairy project, further recommends that consideration be given to seeking advice about instituting legal proceedings against Magashule and Zwane to recover money that was lost by the state through the project “as a result of their failure to perform their legal obligations”.— a private company that only registered itself as being involved in agriculture months after the project was approved — was paid R280.
But most of the funds were allegedly transferred from Estina’s bank accounts into accounts controlled by the Gupta family and their associates. The dairy project was “a complete disaster”, according to Zondo. The report states that Thabethe must be held both criminally and civilly liable for his role in causing the department to lose so many millions of rands in taxpayers’ money and recommended that the Free State provincial government sue Thabethe for the lost funds.In his report, Zondo states that Zwane also “shoulders a lot of blame for the debacle … because he failed to perform a proper oversight function” regarding Thabethe.
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