Former minister Bongani Bongo granted bail after arrest for alleged corruption
Bongo appeared in the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Tuesday after being arrested earlier in the morning.
FILE: Bongani Bongo at the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town on 5 September 2022. Picture: Lindsay Dentlinger/EWN
CAPE TOWN - Former minister of state security, Bongani Bongo, has been granted R5,000 bail after being arrested for alleged corruption.
Former judge president of the Western Cape, John Hlophe, dismissed the charges against Bongo in 2021 but the matter was back on the court roll after the NPA appealed the decision.
Bongo appeared in the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Tuesday after being arrested earlier in the morning.
Hawks spokesperson, Katlego Mogale: "It is alleged that during September to October 2017, the accused approached a member of the then portfolio committee on public enterprises to allegedly arrange a meeting to prevent the next sitting where the Eskom board was to account."
Mogale said that Bongo eventually had a meeting with the portfolio committee member.
"He indicated that the portfolio committee sitting with the Eskom board cannot proceed as planned and indicated that was possible if the member named his price."
The case will be back in court on 4 March.