VBS looters finally in court following DA charges
2 October 2023
Following charges that I laid in 2018 against 53 persons implicated in the looting of VBS Mutual Bank - including members of the ANC, case number CAS1058/05/2019 will be heard in the Pretoria High Court today. The DA welcomes this significant development which is a critical first step towards holding the first 14 perpetrators of the VBS heist to account.
Although the wheels of justice are only starting to move now, 5 years after the DA laid charges, it is our sincere hope that this is the first of several cases that will force the thieves who got away with murder to have their day in court.
Even though the EFF's Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu are not part of the 14 appearing before the Pretoria High Court today, their participation in the wholesale looting of VBS, which decimated the pensions of vulnerable old age people, forms part of the investigations that are still ongoing in this case.
In an 11-page affidavit that I deposed at the Cape Town police station, I presented well-documented anecdotal evidence which showed how vulnerable people such as mine workers' widows and hard-pressed municipalities had money stolen from them by politicians and corrupt officials through the VBS Bank heist using a variety of illegal schemes.