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    GAUTENG BOSSES ORDERED TO PAY BACK R30 million

    Sep 27, 2020 3 minutes
    ABRAM MASHEGO abram.mashego@citypress.co.za
    PHOTO: ROSETTA MSIMANGO

    Gauteng health department officials who are implicated in the province’s Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) looting scandal have been ordered to pay back nearly R30 million to the state. In addition, their pensions have been frozen.

    The order comes after an investigation by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) unearthed damning evidence of price tampering, inflation of the value of goods, and collusion between Gauteng health officials and companies that were awarded lucrative PPE contracts.

    The SIU special tribunal summons, which City Press has seen, reveals that former

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