Public Protector's office completes probe into Phala Phala saga
The Office of the Public Protector has completed its investigation into President Cyril Ramaphosa's handling of the robbery at his Phala Phala farm in 2020.
The office was tasked to investigate whether Ramaphosa had violated the executive ethics code following the theft of a large amount of foreign currency from his private farm in Limpopo
The Phala Phala saga first came to light in June last year after former spy boss Arthur Fraser opened a kidnapping and money laundering case against Ramaphosa, accusing him of attempting to conceal the 2020 robbery in which millions worth of foreign currency were allegedly stolen.
The president has since said that the money was the proceeds from the sale of the game and that he reported the crime to the head of the police's VIP protection unit for investigation.
The investigation by the Public Protector's office was done following the request by the African Transformation Movement (ATM).
In a letter sent to ATM leader Vuyolwethu Zungula, the chapter 9 institution's Vusumuzi Dlamini confirmed that an interim report has been scheduled to go through an internal review for quality assurance purposes.
"Once the quality assurance process is completed, the interim report shall then be served to the relevant parties… to afford them an opportunity to comment on the intended findings before the report is made final," says Dlamini.
In a separate investigation, the independent parliamentary panel headed by former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo found that Ramaphosa may have committed serious violations of the constitution and anti-corruption laws.
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