{"id":26050,"date":"2024-11-08T00:55:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=26050"},"modified":"2024-11-08T00:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T22:55:53","slug":"masukus-corruption-case-marked-by-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2024\/11\/08\/masukus-corruption-case-marked-by-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Masuku\u2019s corruption case marked by delays"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fraud and money laundering case against IEC Commissioner, Nomsa Masuku, has been postponed to February next year, as authorities secure more accused in the matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The former head of Corporate Social Investments at Standard Bank as well as her colleague and co-accused, Mark Phillip Roux, are accused of funnelling more than R1 million from the bank’s Adopt a School Bursary Trust meant for deserving students and dishing it out to Masuku\u2019s relatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The state prosecutor in the matter says investigations in the case are edging nearer to a close.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s alleged that Masuku fraudulently awarded the scholarships to unqualifying beneficiaries, including two of her nephews.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Roux is accused of siphoning R800 000 cash through his Silver Arrows Management Company and paying it back to Masuku\u2019s\u00a0accounts in various instalments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

YNews has it on good authority that the third accused in the case, who is said to be one of Masuku\u2019s nephews, may hand himself over to the police within the week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Education activist, Hendrick Makaneta, emphasised that such damning claims warrant serious attention, especially considering the many students struggling with debt or awaiting registration.<\/p>\n

The allegations against the IEC Commissioner have also raised concerns about the ethical operations of the electoral body and\u00a0sparked calls for Masuku to step aside to prevent further tarnishing the IEC’s reputation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The IEC is, however, standing behind Masuku.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It says it will nonetheless monitor the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears that the matter relates to her erstwhile employment and does not relate to her tenure in the Commission both as an employee and commissioner,\u201d the commission says in a statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fraud and money laundering case against IEC Commissioner, Nomsa Masuku, has been postponed to February next year, as authorities secure more accused in the matter.\u00a0 The former head of Corporate Social Investments at Standard Bank as well as her colleague and co-accused, Mark Phillip Roux, are accused of funnelling ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1895D97D-AEC9-4ECF-AB9A-B68E6AC37AA0.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26058,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050\/revisions\/26058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}