22 Jan 2019
That was a heated final few minutes.
Tempers are frayed, and its been a
long day.
Agrizzi and Pretorius obviously not getting along, whereas throughout
Pretorius has ignored the small quips from the witness stand.
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22 Jan 2019
Inquiry is adjourned
22 Jan 2019
A slight tiff has just erupted between Agrizzi and Pretorius over
Agrizzi not being able to find a certain paragraph in the SIU report,
Zondo steps in.
It's been a long day indeed.
"Take your time," Pretorius says.
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22 Jan 2019
SIU found that Gillingham played an "integral role" from the outset in
the procurement process and was "irregularly instrumental in developing
the tender specifications."
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22 Jan 2019
PP: Evidence that you Agrizzi, have not given, and it will be referred
to here, is that in respect of the kitchens tender awarded in July 2004,
Supply Chain Management regs were broken, and there was no financial
planning for the contact.
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22 Jan 2019
Pretorius will now take us through the SIU report.
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22 Jan 2019
Agrizzi says that Mark and Sharon Taverner did appear before the SIU,
but did not provide "the whole truth" in terms of their answers.
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22 Jan 2019
Subsequent to the SIU report, Mark and Sharon Teverner were subpoenaed
by the SIU. Agrizzi explains he was mandated to ensure that Bosasa was
not damaged.
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22 Jan 2019
AA: Gavin Watson blamed everyone for the SIU report and what it uncovered.
But he said "he had it under control. We had to stick to him, otherwise the future would be very bleak".
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22 Jan 2019
PP: The SIU report represents corroborating evidence, we will go through it, and it may take some time.
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22 Jan 2019
Despite all these efforts, the (brilliant) @RSASIU
investigators still managed to find the evidence they needed to prove
an improper relationship existed between Bosasa and DCS officials,
namely Patrick Gillingham and Linda Mti.
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22 Jan 2019
Records at Blake's Travel agency and Bosasa were destroyed and/or altered.
Before an SIU raid, documents were removed so that investigators could not find such, and a server crash was orchestrated.
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22 Jan 2019
Agrizzi has testified extensively how potentially damaging evidence was
destroyed by himself and other Bosasa employees following media reports
by @AdriaanBasson and the @mailandguardian
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22 Jan 2019
Bosasa officials agreed with the SIU when the laptops and
hard drives would be mirrored
22 Jan 2019
Bosasa officials had a meeting with the SIU, says Agrizzi
22 Jan 2019
There was no SIU raid, says Agrizzi
22 Jan 2019
Documents were later destroyed, says Agrizzi
22 Jan 2019
Documents were placed in storage on a farm
22 Jan 2019
Pretorius says it seems improbable that documents
implicating Watson were captured in writing.
Agrizzi insists that it was done
22 Jan 2019
Agrizzi says he had to leave his American guests and rush to
the office.
Watson was there
22 Jan 2019
Watson called me and said that the offices were going to be
raided, says Agrizzi
22 Jan 2019
Instruction was to fake a server crash and destroy files
22 Jan 2019
Every single instruction came from Gavin Watson, says
Agrizzi
22 Jan 2019
Every travel Bosasa travel invoice was rewritten to fool
auditors, says Agrizzi
22 Jan 2019
Computers and documents were burnt
22 Jan 2019
All documents relating to the corruption in conjunction with
Blake's Travel was destroyed
22 Jan 2019
Inquiry is adjourned for 10 minutes, to resume at 15:50
22 Jan 2019
PP: Who instigated the spying operation?
AA: Gavin Watson. It was to try an confirm conspiracy theory.
22 Jan 2019
PP: Attacks on Bosasa were categorised as attacks by "international capitalists” and ‘activist Afrikaner companies".
Agrizzi says that this is a standard response by Bosasa.
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22 Jan 2019
Agrizzi is still being taken through @AdriaanBasson piece from 2009.
He confirms every detail in Basson's story as correct and true. Wow.
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22 Jan 2019
Did you give Mr Basson the documents he refers to in the article?
No, I would not have spoken to him in those years.
He got it from a couple of people inside Bosasa.
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22 Jan 2019
Agrizzi confiming the media report line by line.
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22 Jan 2019
PP: Do you know what role Mr Gillingham was the head of the bid committees.
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22 Jan 2019
Agrizzi says he never saw any evidence that Balfour was bribed.
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22 Jan 2019
AA: I was asked to do a spying exercise on them, a company was employed
to take photographs and mingle with them and give a report back on DCS
officials.
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22 Jan 2019
Agrizzi: Minister Balfour maybe had only a glass of wine from Bosasa. That's it. Nothing more.
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22 Jan 2019
PP: Is it correct to your knowledge that confidential documents were leaked to Bosasa by Partick Gillingham.
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