5 October 2014 15:00 Erika Gibson @City_Press


The Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has seized $5.7 million (R64 million) for yet another arms deal between South Africa and Nigeria.

This is the second multimillion-rand arms deal between the two countries in the past month that has resulted in the money being frozen in South African banks.

Last month, R103 million in $100 bills stashed in suitcases was seized at Lanseria Airport, north of Joburg.

The money was frozen in both cases for allegedly being the proceeds of illegal transactions.

City Press’ sister paper Rapport has learnt that the department for offences against the state in the Special Investigating Unit is also involved.

Documents in the newspaper’s possession show that the earlier consignment was approved by the Nigerian government – that country’s national security adviser personally issued the end-user certificate for the transaction.

An entire “shopping list” was supplied with the certificate, which included everything from helicopters to unmanned aircraft, rockets and ammunition.

Sources close to the investigation said the latest transaction was between Cerberus Risk Solutions, an arms broker in Cape Town, and Societe D’Equipments Internationaux, a Nigerian company in Abuja.

An impeccable source said this company paid the R60 million into Cerberus’ account at Standard Bank.

Cerberus was previously registered as a broker with the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), but the registration expired in May this year.

The marketing and contracting permits also expired at the same time.

The company has since applied for re-registration, but the application lay in the NCACC’s mailbox for more than two months.

Sources told Rapport that Cerberus apparently tried to pay the money back to the Nigerian company, after which the bank became suspicious.

The NPA’s Asset Forfeiture Unit subsequently obtained a court order in the South Gauteng High Court to seize the money.
Cerberus’ attorney, Martin Hood, this week declined to comment on the matter.

NPA spokesperson Nathi Mncube said there were no indications that the two transactions were related.

“However, both are now the subject of a criminal investigation and all possible information and connections are being investigated,” said Mncube.

This is a joke abi?

what is happening in this country ooooooo gej are u there

south Africa fooling Nigeria since 1960

They have not brought the arms they claimed they wanted to buy with the oder $9.3 million. They are already going to buy another one. They should stop looting our money and try to deceive us that they are buying arms.

Am speechless.
As the say a mistake repeated is foolishness. We have been engaging in Arms purchase but clandestine & overt for decades. Why then are we behaving like NOVICE or is there more to it!!!
South African intel Guys must be watching us tightly.

***sighs***

What!!! What is happening in this country?

Na wa oo. Nigerian gov't openly doing things in secret sing 19gini kwanu.

If the news is true,

Then Our Leaders are Muntullars.

When are they going to learn nah?

E tire me jarey.

Imagine SA feeling like King Kong because our Leaders are stewpeed.

Damn it.

Does this involve a private jet too?

Ibnsultan:
Am speechless.
As the say a mistake repeated is foolishness. We have been engaging in Arms purchase but clandestine & overt for decades. Why then are we behaving like NOVICE or is there more to it!!!
South African intel Guys must be watching us tightly.

U spoke mah mind
Their intel guys are also smarter

no source?

Steadmann:
If the news is true,

Then Our Leaders are Muntullars.

When are they going to learn nah?

E tire me jarey.

Imagine SA feeling like King Kong because our Leaders are stewpeed.

Damn it.

Pls can you tell me the meaning of muntullar.

zeemahn:

U spoke mah mind
Their intel guys are also smarter

the use moles wit in The NSA structure.

Jonathan

Op, Link to the source pls

Fake news

No source

Source

Just look at how some people have already swallowed this report like pounded yam and egusi soup. Op; provide us with the source of this report.

thanks to NIGERIA'S leaders south africa don hammer. Clueless govt. When did south africa intelligence agencies turn mossad?

I can see some Bokoharam sympathisers already masturbäting on this propaganda/blackmailing thread without Source

Begonia:
Just look at how some people have already swallowed this report like pounded yam and egusi soup. Op; provide us with the source of this report.

They are set of Almajiris. Just take a glance at their Monikers.

Ibnsultan:
Am speechless.
As the say a mistake repeated is foolishness. We have been engaging in Arms purchase but clandestine & overt for decades. Why then are we behaving like NOVICE or is there more to it!!!
South African intel Guys must be watching us tightly.

Even you Brutus

INSTINCTS:
Pls can you tell me the meaning of muntullar.

Muntullar is a slang in Abuja here.

It means a daft or an 1d1ot.

All dis illicit and illegal ways of acquiring arms and ammunition is mainly 4 2015 and not Boko haram. This is 2 show hw desperate our polithiefcians are.

Documents in the newspaper’s possession show that the earlier consignment was approved by the Nigerian government – that country’s [b][/b][color=#990000][/color]national security adviser personally issued the end-user certificate for the transaction.


For sure the truth will surely prevail with this news emanating from SA and not from our facts twisting media houses, stating Clearly that Sambo Dansuki NSA issued the end certificate for the botched $9.3m and has in no way indicted the CAN president of any wrong doing. I believe apologies should that rolling in from JNI, El rufai, Cardinal Okogie and from every Nairalander who resulted to blackmail and campaign of calumny against Pastor Ayo and as a matter of Urgency the NSA and Minister of defence should be sacked immediately the global embarrassment is one too many.

Our leaders want to play ping pong with a country that is not comfortable with our 'giants of Africa' status and that is still mourning the death of their beloved citizens courtesy of the carelessness and crookedness of some Nigerias? Hahaha

So all we buy now is arms? To kill who? Are we sure these arms are for the Nigerian military alone