Ergebnisse der forensischen Untersuchung:
>Mehr als 2 Mrd. Rand hat Brett Kebble den Aktionären von Randgold& Exploration gestohlen. 95 Mio Rand gingen dabei an den ANC und deren führende Mitglieder. 116 Mio Rand sind auf Kebbles persönliche Bankkonten eingezahlt worden von Firmen, die durch Kebbles unberechtigte Zahlungen begünstigt wurden. Der Untersuchungsbericht fordert u.a.:
-Strafrechtliche Anklage und zivilrechtliche Forderungen gegen PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
- das gleiche gegen frühere R&E Direktoren, darunter das Hippo
- aus dem Kebble-Besitz 390 Mio Rand zurückzufordern. <
Who got Kebble’s dirty millions
•ANC and leading members accused of receiving R95m•Top auditing firm should face charges, say investigators •Forensic report says family must give back R390m
26 March 2006
‘It is clear that a fraud has been perpetrated by the former directors, undetected by the external auditors’
WISANI wa ka NGOBENI, DOMINIC MAHLANGU and DUMISANE LUBISI
SLAIN mining magnate Brett Kebble claimed to have channelled more than R95-million of shareholders’ money to bankroll the ANC and leading members of the ruling party [Blockierte Grafik: http://www.smiliemania.de/smilie132/00000116.gif], a forensic investigation has revealed.
Now forensic investigators are urging Kebble’s former mining company, Randgold & Exploration, to claim back the money. The Sunday Times is in possession of a series of forensic reports drawn up by Umbono Financial Advisory Services between October 2005 and January this year.
Kebble was shot dead in Johannesburg in September last year.
The reports include a list that was found on Kebble’s desk in his Cape Town office after his death. It is headed “Loan Account” and appears to be a summary of those he lent money to.
At the top of this list, Kebble stated that he had lent the ANC R18- million.
The ANC said yesterday it had no knowledge of loans from Kebble. “We know nothing like that,” said spokesman Steyn Speed. 
According to the list, ANC heavyweights and businessmen who also benefited from Kebble include:
• Mac Maharaj, former Transport Minister (R280000);
• Popo Molefe, former North West premier (R768000);
• Former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni (R1.4-million);
• Dali Tambo, son of late ANC president Oliver Tambo (R11.096-million)
•Sello Rasethaba, director of Matodzi (R9.667-million);
•Eric Molefe, former chairman of Exel Petroleum, the black-owned oil company (R431000);
•Chris Nissen, former Western Cape ANC leader (R370000);
•David Barritt, Kebble’s former spokesman (R10.295-million);
•Sharif Pandor, husband of Education Minister Naledi Pandor (R979966);
•Dominic Ntsele, a Kebble business associate (R2-million);
•Lunga Ncwana, a prominent ANC Youth League member (R7.060-million); and
•Andile Nkuhlu, a Youth League leader and former JCI executive (R333000).
The document that alleges payments to the ANC and its top figures was handed to investigators by John Stratton, an Australian businessman with whom Kebble dealt in the past. It was handed to Stratton by Rita Meininghaus, who used to work for Kebble, after she discovered it on Kebble’s desk.
A handwritten note on the document reads: “This document has been on Brett’s desk since a meeting he had held with George Poole during July or August 2005.” Poole is a former group secretary of Kebble’s companies.
In 2004, Kebble publicly acknowledged that he was one of the mystery donors who pumped R500000 into the coffers of the ANC in the Western Cape, which was short of money at the time.
Nissen said the money he received was for “consultancy work” he did for Kebble.
Tambo said yesterday it was well known that he had business dealings with Kebble. However, he said he was not aware of the R11-million.
Barritt said he had worked for all the money he received
and that he had launched a civil claim against Kebble’s estate to recover money still owed to him.
Nkuhlu said he had never received the money. 
Maharaj, Molefe, Ntsele and Yengeni could not be reached for comment.
The forensic reports say that more than R2-billion in shareholders’ money has vanished from the company through a series of deals put together by Kebble.
The audit was instituted by institutional investors Allan Gray and Investec after the controversial businessman was booted off the boards of his own companies in August.
The forensic reports recommend, among other things, that:
•Criminal charges and civil claims be laid against the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC);
•Criminal charges and civil claims be laid against former Randgold directors and officers; and
•Randgold claim back about R390-million from Kebble’s estate.
Brian Gibson, a Randgold spokesman, said the company would indeed move to recover the money.
Fulvio Tonelli, a director of PwC, said yesterday that his firm had not had contact with the investigators and had not yet seen their report.
“Accordingly, we are unable to comment on the matter,” he said.
PwC signed off Randgold’s last audited set of accounts for the year ended December 2003, finding the statements to “fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position of the company”.
But forensic investigators found that Randgold’s financial statements for the same period “grossly misrepresent the financial position of the listed company”.
“It is clear that a material fraud has been perpetrated by the former directors, undetected by the external auditors, against Randgold, a company listed on the Nasdaq stock market. The gravity of this situation cannot be overemphasised,” the forensic investigators said in a report to Randgold.
Implicated Randgold directors include Nissen, prominent ANC Youth League members Ncwana and Songezo Mjongile, Brett’s father Roger Kebble and directors Hennie Buitendag and Brenda Madumise.
Nissen said the alleged breaches happened before he became a director of the company.
Mjongile, also speaking on behalf of Ncwana, said he had no comment because he had not seen the forensic reports.
The forensic investigators have found that a total of R116-million was paid into Kebble’s personal bank account by companies that benefited from the unauthorised sale of Randgold assets.
The investigators said a claim should also be instituted against Kebble’s estate for Randgold’s loss of a R268-million investment in a 2003 BEE mining deal.
Kebble is believed to have died owing up to R100-million to the South African Revenue Service.
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