News24 reports that prison awaits convicted former Mangaung Local Municipality general manager, Lehlohonolo Nakedi, after reaching the end of the road with a ruling by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) that he should commence serving his 10 year sentence for fraud and corruption.  

Nakedi was expected to hand himself in at a correctional facility in Bloemfontein on Monday morning to start serving his prison sentence.  "This follows the dismissal of his application by the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal his conviction.  Nakedi was slapped with a 10 year sentence for corruption, eight years for fraud, eight years for money laundering and seven years imprisonment for contravening of the Prevention of Organised Crime Second Amendment Act suspended for three years in 2014 by the Bloemfontein Regional Court," Hawks spokesperson, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi advised.  Nakedi was convicted in 2013 and has since been fighting to stay out of prison by making applications in different courts all the way up to the ConCourt.  Nakedi was employed by the municipality as general manager: mechanical services in 2003.  His criminal case was "related to manipulation of the procurement processes at the municipality where two companies were awarded a vehicle tracking system contract in exchange for gratification".

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