South Africa: Pair Arrested in the Rekgonne Community Projects Investigations

press release

The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations welcomed the arrest of two suspects in an operation early this morning for corruption, fraud and money laundering of over R244 million.

The allegations in the matter relate to the company known Superior Quality Trading which also trades as Rekgonne Community Projects, of which a criminal case was opened by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation. During the investigations of the Estina case it was discovered that there were irregularities in the financial flow analysis of certain an account. Large amounts of money reported to have deposited into a bank account belonging to the former Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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