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Picture courtesy: ( image supplied) former acting CEO of Sports South Africa pays back the money as agreed with SIU.
(The Post News)– The Extraordinary Examining Unit (SIU) has gotten a full installment from Terrence Magogodela, the previous acting CEO of Sports South Africa (ASA), for the stores he excessively picked up from the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) to subsidize sports office advancement.
An agreement was reach between, Mr. Magogodela and the SIU in June 2023, i which Mr Magogodela was to pay back R388 733.05.
The sum is comprehensive of interface, SIU lawful costs, keeper costs, and the sum that he was excessively enhanced of, taking after the allow financing by NLC to a non-profit association, Inqaba Yokulinda. Settlement agreements are part of the SIU’s technique to recoup reserves misplaced by the state.
At first, a settlement understanding was reached, but Mr. Magogodela refused to respect it. This incited the SIU to approach the Extraordinary Tribunal for an application to protect his Gauteng domestic. In February 2022, the Extraordinary Tribunal allowed the SIU to organize a conservation event for Magogodela’s property.
Be that as it may, the settlement agreement does not constitute a full and final settlement between the parties. SIU remains entitled to connect Mr. Magogodela in any future continuing and claim suitable alleviation from him.
The SIU’s examinations of the NLC found that Magogodela checked the NLC application shape for financing to form beguilement tracks inside the Northern Cape. On the shape, he shows that he was the venture facilitator for Inqaba Yokulinda, but he was neither the extend facilitator nor a part of Inqaba Yokulinda. The subsidizing application, the commerce and execution arrangement, and a support letter from ASA were submitted to the NLC. Mr. Magogodela channeled the NLC reserves towards a property in Gauteng.
These settlements with Mr. Magogodela are part of the usage of the SIU examination results and result administration to recoup money-related misfortunes endured by the state education due to debasement. The settlement understanding does not pardon Mr. Magogodela from conceivable arraignment. SIU was approved by President Cyril Ramaphosa in terms of Announcement R32 of 2020 to examine affirmations of debasement and maladministration within the undertakings of NLC and the conduct of NLC authorities and to recoup any monetary misfortunes endured by the state.
The SIU is enabled by the Uncommon Exploring Units and Uncommon Tribunals Act 74 of 1996 to institute a gracious activity within the Extraordinary Tribunal or the Tall Court to rectify any wrongdoing it reveals in its examination. The SIU refers the evidence indicating criminal conduct to the National Arraigning Specialist for assistance.
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