MK Party opens case against Treasury over ‘irregularly’ awarded R400m IFMS tender

By Charles Molele 

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party laid charges of fraud and corruption against the National Treasury at the Brooklyn police station in Tshwane on Monday. 

Party leader Des Van Rooyen led a delegation of the party’s Members of Parliament to the Brooklyn Police Station, where charges of corruption and fraud were laid against the National Treasury.

Van Rooyen told the SABC that the party has opened a case against the National Treasury, US-based IT firm Oracle and the State Information Technology Agency.

“Now, because we are dealing with a ministry, so here we are saying the executive authority, as well as the accounting officer, must account to the nation about what happened,” Van Rooyen said.  

“And that goes also to the leadership of Oracle, that goes also to the leadership of SITA. We think the investigation that will be conducted by our law enforcement agents will exact who were