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TimesLIVE reports that the fraud trial of a former state attorney and her sister got under way at the Special Tribunal on Monday.
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is seeking to recover R4.5m from Nosipho Zibani and three others. Zibani, a qualified attorney who was employed in the department of justice and correctional services, is on trial with her sister Phindile Zibani after they allegedly teamed up to defraud the department of health in Gauteng of R4.5m between 2016 and 2017. Nosipho is accused of creating fictitious and bogus medico-legal claims and invoicing personnel at various hospitals in Gauteng. The Special Tribunal heard that she was at all material times responsible for handling litigation on behalf of the department of health in relation to delictual acts of medical personnel at various hospitals in Gauteng. Nosipho would issue invoices to herself using a letterhead, purportedly belonging to Yolanda Hlatshwayo, for services rendered in the form of a medico-legal report and cause invoices to be paid into Hlatshwayo's bank accounts. Upon receipt of the payment into her bank account, it is alleged Hlatshwayo would pay funds into the account of Phindile Zibani. The money would eventually find its way to Nosipho. The SIU claims the four respondents knew that the alleged services had not been rendered by Hlatshwayo and that the payments constituted defrauding the Gauteng department of health.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ernest Mabuza at TimesLIVE
- See too, Fraud trial of sisters relating to Gauteng health department begins, at BusinessLive
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