BDLive reports that a former senior official who served in erstwhile Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa’s private office is among three ANC officials facing corruption charges.  

This comes after forensic reports compiled by an external audit company uncovered millions of irregular expenditure in the metro.  Newly elected mayor Solly Msimanga on Thursday filed the corruption complaints at the Brooklyn police station, citing the forensic reports, which he said had been completed in 2015 and suppressed.  He would not divulge details about the amounts involved.  He did say that the reports dealt with corruption, fraud and the misuse of money in two projects, namely R90m spent on City Hall and over-expenditure on the mayoral residence.  The three officials implicated no longer hold high office in Tshwane.  They will be named only once they have been formally charged.  ANC Tshwane regional spokesman Teboho Joala said that the party had never protected anyone implicated in wrongdoing.

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