Gone with the wind: No sign of recovery for R77m stolen from financially crippled City of Tshwane

Financial records reveal how funds were looted from city’s community safety department through a BEE fronting scheme and used to fund the lavish lifestyle of former senior official and convicted fraudster Jacobs Barend ‘Japie’ Lerm

11 October 2023 - 21:59
By Graeme Hosken, Aron Hyman and Tankiso Makhetha

Financial records reveal how funds were looted from city’s community safety department through a BEE fronting scheme and used to fund the lavish lifestyle of former senior official and convicted fraudster Jacobs Barend ‘Japie’ Lerm

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