Taxpayer losses to Tembisa Hospital corruption network, first identified by whistleblower Babita Deokaran, have risen to as much as 3bn says the Special Investigation Unit (SIU), a 250% escalation from the R850m. SIU boss Andy Mothibi said the money was laundered through hundreds of “letterbox” companies that existed only on paper, at a near individual scale previously unknown.
We have never come across a scheme as complex and deeply rooted as this, and this is just on hospital, he said. The money was moved out of GAUTENG DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH coffers through many as a 5500 individual transactions, followed by thousand more to launder tha cash through the bank account of nameless companies.
