TimesLIVE reports that tenderpreneur Hangwani Morgan Maumela splurged about R60m on seven luxury cars — a Rolls-Royce, two Aston Martins, a Ferrari and three Lamborghinis — with money “looted” from Tembisa Hospital.

Four of the vehicles — a Ferrari 812 Superfast supercar, a Rolls-Royce Cullinan, an Aston Martin DBS, and an Aston Martin DB11 — were found at an Mpumalanga car dealership as the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) attempted to seize them last week. The cars are together worth more than R30m. The SIU was granted an interim court order on 29 September by the Special Tribunal to attach and preserve the seven luxury vehicles — all of which are in the same shade of blue — and other assets, including a R70m three-storey residential property in the Sandton suburb of Sandhurst, from Maumela, his family trust and other associates such as family members.

The application succeeded in interdicting Maumela and his associates from selling, leasing, donating or transferring any of the assets pending the finalisation of the SIU’s probe into dodgy contracts at Tembisa Hospital worth R2.3bn. However, the four vehicles, which investigators traced by following the money paid from the hospital contracts, were found to be registered with Omar’s Motor Den, a luxury vehicle and supercar dealership based in eMalahleni.

On Thursday morning, when the SIU swooped in both Sandton and eMalahleni, the four luxury cars were found on the dealership’s showroom floor. Omar’s Motor Den’s lawyer, Yasmin Omar, said her client was co-operating fully with the curator, even though it was not cited as a respondent in the application underpinning the order. The dealership has agreed not to sell the vehicles until the matter is finalised.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Isaac Mahlangu at TimesLIVE
• Less ook, Tembisa-tenderskandaal: Beslag gelê op Aston Martins, Ferrari, kuns en juwele, by Maroela Media

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