Former KZN treasury head is expected to be sentenced on Thursday, for his role in the so-called “Amigos case”, involving the award of a R44m contract for water purification plants by the provincial government, apparently in return for a R1m “sweetener”.
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In June this year, Durban high court judge Dhaya Pillay found Shabalala guilty of corruption, fraud, money laundering and contravening the Public Finance Management Act — offences which attract long prison sentences.The first arrests in the “Amigos” case — so named because it was how some of the accused referred to each other in correspondence — were made in 2010.But charges were withdrawn against them and others over the years.
He said Shabalala had been entrusted with public money and some of the purification plants were still “collecting rust”.But the probation officer, Innocentia Mpumelelo Shiba, in her report to the court, said direct imprisonment would expose him to “hardened criminals” — and he had already been punishedShe recommended that he pay a fine and be sentenced to correctional supervision, where he would be placed under house arrest for five years, which would be “more restorative and rehabilitative”.
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