SIU seeks to expose those responsible for Post Office lease corruption
THE Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it is in discussions with the police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), to ensure that those implicated in the South African Post Office’s signing of a controversial 10-year lease in Centurion in 2010, are brought to book. The office in question, known as Eco Point Building, was to become the Post Office’s head office but largely lay unoccupied. Earlier in 2016, the SIU — together with the Post Office and Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele — launched a High Court application in Pretoria for the set aside of the Eco Point lease agreement, a 10-year contract valued at close to R500m. The two parties’ application was based on the noncompliance of supply chain management and allegations of fraud and corruption. This was after the SIU concluded its investigation into irregularities and serious maladministration in the affairs of the Post Office. The landlord is opposing the application. SIU head Jan Lekhoa ...
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