OVERVIEW: 'That money did not reach my account' - Mrwebi on allegations of receiving R10 000 from Bosasa #Mokgoroinquiry

Mrwebi is done with his testimony. The inquiry adjourns until tomorrow at 09:00.

Jiba will testify tomorrow. 

Rib: Did you ever meet Mr Mti?

Mrwebi: I know Mr Mti as the accused in this Bosasa matter...I have never had any relationship with him.

Email addressed to JL:

Draft racketeering draft sheet was requested from Lepinka.

Mrwebi explains the context of the email. 

Jackie Lepinka was the private secretary of Mti while employed at Correctional Services.

Mrwebi confirms this and elaborates on her duties.

ICYMI: Around 2011 Bosasa had already devised a plan to bribe top prosecutors Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi through former prisons boss Linda Mti and his one-time secretary, Jackie Lepinka who as it happened, was at the time Jiba's personal assistant.

Documents were kept in storage spaces.

"There were cameras, and security. Conveniently on the day the documents were romoved, the cameras were not working. "

At the time, security was also not present. "He/she was not there," Mrwebi says.

These documents are still missing.

Mrwebi: "Then I decided to go home and pray" after his office was raided. Upon his return the next day, the office was clean and "top secret documents" in a safe were not taken.

"There was not even a pin in my office."

23/6/2014 - Letters by Hofmeyr:

Letter received by Mrwebi, responded that he has no representations to make in the letter.

Another letter from Hofmeyr followed thereafter about Mrwebi's prosecution.

Mrwebi confirms receiving both letters and responding respectively.

Rib: Do you know general Mdluli?

Mrwebi: I know general Mdluli by reading about him on newspapers.

"I have no reason to favour anybody when I take a decision. The fact that the person might be hated does not influence my decision."

Mrwebi says adv Bretenbach asked for a forensic report. "I said that is a good idea," he says. 

Mrwebi says they came to the conclusion that the matter should be provisionally withdrawn.  

ICYMI: Mokgoro inquiry: Mzinyathi forced to withdraw charges against Mdluli

North Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Sibongile Mzinyathi has told the Mokgoro inquiry that he was pushed into a corner and forced to agree to the provisional withdrawal of charges against former Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli.

Mdluli was facing charges of fraud, theft and corruption for allegedly pillaging the Crime Intelligence slush fund.

But the charges were withdrawn in 2011.

Mrwebi says they went through the merits of the case.

"Mr Mdluli is not implicated in the fraud case. This R90 000 we are talking about in terms of the shorfall he was going to pay - all these transactions were done by his co-accused," he says. 

Meeting with Breytenbach and Mr Mzinyathi. They didn't agree with decision that he took. 

Mrwebi: I did not go much into merits of the matter, we then went through it, discussed the matter. My initial view, we got a bit very sensitive. Security environment being dealt with. 

Mrwebi says there was no evidence in the Richard Mdluli docket to say he had knowledge of any transactions.

The transactions relates to Mdluli's BMWs.

Mrwebi: I was not being respected because I had not received the report. I had to write a reminder that I requested to receive the report.

The response strangely did not address the matter. The response rather said 'we cannot entertain this', but not telling me why. It was not helpful to me. I requested it again, thereafter it was provided.

On reports to conviction records/ evidence displayed on screen:

Mrwebi: Documents prepared under my supervision up until 2016 at least.

Rib: Are you directly involved in ever High Court matter?

No chair. The prosecutor decides on strategy.

Chair: Do they report annually to working group?

Mrwebi: Quarterly, 4 times a year. 

Mrwebi on OECD presentation: We presented training and actual evidence of who we were training. 

Rib: The report was brought out before 2018?

Mrwebi: Quite correct

Rib: How do you feel about OECD criticism?

Mrwebi: Unfair criticism, objective evidence points to the contrary. 

Rib: It stated that after (Chris MacAdam) left, under your leadership, was that SA was left a mess.

Inadequacies now being read out.