Satawu was used as a conduit to launder about R65million in pensions allegedly plundered from improvished orphans of deceased mine workers.
City Press can today reveal that Bongani Mhlanga, the erstwhile owner of financial services group Mvunonala, allegedly used the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) as a conduit to move pension funds into his family’s trust and a company owned by him.
Details of the money laundering web are contained in a hard-hitting set of findings by forensic investigations firm SekelaXabiso Chartered Accountants.
In November 2017 Satawu’s interim task team commissioned the firm to look into the union’s finances for the period January 2012 to May 2015.
This followed the discovery of suspicious transactions which the report says had the hallmarks of “insider trading, money laundering, theft, fraud and corruption”.
In November 2017 Satawu’s central executive committee appointed a task
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