The Ad Hoc Committee heard on Thursday that part of the R45 million to buy a grabber machine for the Crime Intelligence was to be used to fund a faction of the ANC at the party’s elective national conference in 2017. Former Crime Intelligence’s Secret Services Account head Tiyani Lincoln Hlungwani maintained that the R45m transaction he refused to authorise for the grabber was meant to fund the ANC conference. “Intelligence operatives even have a document which points to this matter.
It was going to be used to fund this conference,” he said, adding that a portion of the amount was to buy the grabber and the remainder was to be taken for the conference. Responding to questions during his testimony, Hlungwani told the committee that he was removed from his position while he was busy reviewing monies in the “Slush Fund”. In his testimony before the committee, Hlungwani said the information about money stolen from the Secret Services Account was within the Crime Intelligence Services.
“I could not have the time to have the proof. When I was busy conducting a review of those monies, I was removed,” he said when responding to questions on his second day of testimony. Hlungwani said he had been working fine at the Crime Intelligence Services before the ANC 2017 national elective conference, but he became a target when he refused to authorise the transaction for a grabber machine.
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“There were no issues. I was working fine. The attacks started immediately after there, attack after attack.” However, Hlungwani confirmed that he had been arrested on a frivolous criminal complaint by the then CFO of the Secret Services Account. “This preceded the events of the Nasrec conference,” he said.
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