Fani

General Khan receives insider information from someone in Procurement, probably Mr Fani, about upcoming bid adjudication meetings.

“General Khan got this from somebody inside Procurement, probably Mr Fani, saying that they are now going to be adjudicating the bid.”

General Khan is discussing tender logistics and progress with an insider in Treasury, linked to Mr Fani who was involved in preparation of tenders.

“What happens is that Mr Vally receives information, he then goes to General Khan and he says, you know, will bro ask your guy? Our guy, in fact. Oh no, your guy. ... I will show in the course of this text that at least one of the guys inside Treasury that they are talking to is Mr Fani.”

It is improper and suspicious that meetings took place between Mr Fani, a bidder, and a senior supply chain person from the department while a bid was being evaluated.

“On its face, it appears to be improper that while a bid is being evaluated and you are one of the bidders, you are having meetings with a senior supply chain person in the very department.”

There are questions about Mr Fani's role, whether he appoints committee members or influences the tender evaluation, which need to be answered.

“Does he appoint, for example, the people who sit in various committees? What exactly is his role? ... How else do you explain the various requests for meetings with him?”

It should be established if Mr Fani is part of the committee evaluating the tender, as he has access to insider information about missing provincial prices that needs rectification.

“... it certainly is information that he has access to.”

It is necessary to find out if Mr Fani declared an interest in the tender and confirm the requirements for such declaration given his apparent interest.

“I think one of the questions that would have to be asked of him is whether he declared an interest and I think it is advisable that we know what is the requirement.”

Meetings and conversations between Mr Fani and Treasury are clearly improper.

“One is the conversations with somebody in Treasury, that is clearly improper.”

General Khan messages Mr Vally about getting backlash from market players on a tender related to Kaizen Motor Spares, and they plan a meeting to address it.

“General Khan sends a message to Mr Vally and the content of the message is as follows. "Grootman, I am getting lots of backlash from the market players on K. We need to regroup ASAP so that they give me info." Mr Vally replies: "Okay, bro, we can meet him."”

Mr Vally and General Khan plan a meeting with Mr Fani on July 13, 2022 to discuss price increases and buyouts related to a tender.

“Mr Vally says: "Can bro push to meet F?" and mentions two points to discuss: "1. Price increases please. 2, buyouts please." General Khan replies: "Okay, bro."”

Mr General Fani remained in his position and was only recently suspended a couple of weeks ago (relative to 2021), suggesting a lack of timely law enforcement action potentially linked to General Khan's facilitation of procurement processes.

“What we do know is Mr General Fani remained, General Fani was only suspended I think recently, a couple of weeks ago. So he remained, and this is 2021, so he remained in his position until fairly recently. If there had been some law enforcement or some action taken by General Khan perhaps something would have happened sooner.”

General Khan and General Fani were involved in an IT contract between the National Treasury and Cyberia in 2021.

“a n d w h a t w e w i l l s e e i s a g a i n t h e i n v o l v e m e n t o f G e n e r a l K h a n t h r o u g h G e n e r a l F a n i”

General Khan reported to Mr Sayed that General Fani had said he met with SMADA, which is the corporate vehicle for General Khan and Mr Sayed, regarding the Cyberia contract.

“General Khan reported to Mr Sayed that General Fani had said that he had met with them and that Smada, what seems to be the corporate vehicle of General Khan and Mr Sayed for this Cyberia contract, would meet MTN the following day.”

The estimated value of the contract split is three ways between three parties, believed to be General Khan, Mr Sayed and a third party (possibly General Fani).

“It is pretty obvious that this is a split that is going to be three ways between three parties ... We believe the other two are General Khan and Mr Sayed hence the discussion between the two of them of the split...”

General Khan participated in a private commercial effort concerning Cyberia's master agreement with National Treasury, acting as an intermediary to connect parties for the contract's successful conclusion.

“General Khan participated in this private commercial effort concerning Cyberia's master agreement with National Treasury,... General Khan facilitated or arranged meetings between Pilot and other members, including Mr Sayed and Josie... that General Khan has transmitted information from General Fani and himself about internal SAPS communication.”

Lieutenant General Ritt was the Divisional Commissioner for Supply Chain Management in 2021, a position previously held by General Fani.

“In 2021, Lieutenant General Ritt was the Divisional Commissioner for Supply Chain Management. This is a position that General Fani held.”

There are gaps in the chat records between General Khan and 'our guy' (identified later as Fani), implying some communications about the tender occurred off the recorded platform via other means such as Signal, Telegram or phone calls.

“Commissioner Khumalo , we do not have a set of chats dealing with that exchange , but what we see here is there are gaps all over the place and it is obvious that the communications are not happening only on one platform .”

A screenshot shared by Mr Vally to General Khan shows multiple tenders including a PPE tender for disinfection, sanitization and deep cleaning of municipal offices and warehouses, implying negotiations related to this tender apart from the main auto parts tender.

“It is a screenshot of more tenders and one of the tenders is a PPE tender ... For disinfection , sanitization , and deep cleaning of all municipal offices , warehouses ... He shares the screenshot with General Khan and says : “ Bro , dispensers we can do . And last one , we can do . And its says sensitization , but I think what he meant was sanitization . General Khan responds : “ Salams , bro , I will speak to Fani . ” And Mr Vally responds : “ Thank you . We are already doing small ... small sanitization monthly at SAPS . ””