Tembisa hospital probe uncovers bogus transactions worth R3-billion

Special Investigating Unit (SIU) spokesperson, Kaizer Kganyago says they have uncovered the unlawful movement of money amounting to R3-billion at the Tembisa hospital East of Johannesburg.

He was speaking at the memorial service to commemorate whistleblower Babita Deokaran, who died in a hail of bullets on the 23rd of August 2021.

Six men have been sentenced for her murder.

Kganyago says Deokaran, who was the former Chief Director for Financial Accounting at the Gauteng Department of Health, flagged 850 dodgy transactions.

“What is happening at the moment is that investigation is very complicated; and what I can say to the public is we have reached a stage where we can safely say we’ve never seen such kind of problems and ways of trying to hide things. You’ll remember at the time when Babita died she had flagged about 850 transactions. So far we have flagged 5 500 and they are very intricate; they are what we call letter box transactions that are done through different bank accounts. Therefore it is an indication that we still have a lot of work that we need to do.”

“So far we’ve established that there’s movement of about R3-billion that moved from the department to these bogus accounts and therefore we are still continuing with the investigations and we are hoping that this is going to show more results. We have promised that in her name we will do everything that we need to do to get to the bottom of it,” adds Kganyago.

Babita Deokaran | SIU probe uncovers thousands of transactions worth billions