BOSASA Angelo Agrizzi bosasa arrests 2

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BOSASA LATEST: Court to obtain independent medical report on Agrizzi

The State has called for an independent medical report on the health condition of  the more than R800 000 fraud accused, BOSASA former Chief Operations Officer, Angelo Agrizzi,  who has skipped court for the past nine months due to ill health. Investigating Directorate spokesperson, Sindisiwe Seboka, said Agrizzi’ s more than R800 000 fraud case […]

BOSASA Angelo Agrizzi bosasa arrests 2

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The State has called for an independent medical report on the health condition of  the more than R800 000 fraud accused, BOSASA former Chief Operations Officer, Angelo Agrizzi,  who has skipped court for the past nine months due to ill health.

Investigating Directorate spokesperson, Sindisiwe Seboka, said Agrizzi’ s more than R800 000 fraud case had been postponed to 2 December in the Palm Ridge Specialised Crimes Court. She said this was after Agrizzi had failed to appear before court for more than  9 months, citing ill health. 

“The court has issued a warrant for his arrest, stayed until the next appearance next month. The court, through the state’s request, will acquire the services of an independent physician/ pulmonologist,” Seboka said.

Agrizzi stands accused of offering gratification on behalf of BOSASA to former Parliamentarian Vincent Smith in exchange for his influence, as the then chairperson of Parliament’s oversight committee on Correctional Services.

BOSASA scored contracts totalling just over R1 billion from Correctional Services between 2004 and 2007. 

Meanwhile, tax evasion charges of more than R28 million have been added to the case against Smith, which was this week postponed to 21 January, 2022. 

“The defence requested the state to provide them with a paginated docket after the final indictment was provided to them today. The charges now include tax fraud, money laundering, corruption and breach of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act,” Seboka said. The tax fraud charges stem from Smith and Euroblitz’s alleged failure to disclose taxable income totalling R28 Million between 09 March 2009 and 11 July 2018.

Smith stands accused in his personal capacity as well as in a representative capacity for his company Euroblitz 48 Pty Ltd. He has been charged of corruption for the alleged gratifications he received from BOSASA in the form of security upgrades to his Gauteng home. He further faces corruption charges after he allegedly accepted gratifications from Waterfall Golf Estate (Pty) Ltd and CLIDET 69 (PTY) LTD. 

He also faces charges for accepting cash transferred into his personal bank account and his company from BOSASA and other people unknown to the state. 

In addition, he faces fraud charges for failing to disclose to parliaments Register of Members’ Interest of the gratifications, cash deposits and money that was paid to him by Waterfall Golf Estate (Pty) Ltd and CLIDET 69 (PTY) LTD.