Prasa says it was never instructed to halt probes

Molefe said they received a letter from Peters who raised concern over the cost and time spent on the investigations.

 

“We did mention that the matters are before the courts and we don’t think that there is anything irregular with our investigations given the origin of the investigations being compliance with reports of the Auditor General and Public Protector.”

 

Molefe rubbished claims that the investigation is costing Prasa billions of rands.

 

“The irregularities amount to over R14 billion and what we are spending does not exceed R80 million. The norm is to spend up to 10% of the value of the amount being investigated and what we have spent is not even 1% of that amount,” he said.

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Molefe could not give a timeline of when the investigations would be concluded, saying they recover new information every day.

 

“The people who were involved in these fraudulent activities have hidden information which we have to uncover. We have two big cases before the courts, one relating to the irregularly procured locomotives and the other relating to the automated security system,” he said.

 

 

Molefe said they have at least 40 civil actions and approximately 80 criminal actions lodged with law enforcement.

 

“We have a couple of civil actions to recover some of the money that was acquired fraudulently. What we need is government to support our initiative to ensure law enforcement agencies play their part,” he said

Edited by Laila Majiet