Rubben Mohlaloga

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(see below). [7]

Because ICASA's rules stipulated that convicted fraudsters could not serve on the board, [7] Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Communications recommended that Mohlaloga should be removed from the chair. However, the house of the National Assembly referred this recommendation back to the committee, arguing that he should not be removed permanently until he had concluded all legal appeals in his criminal conviction. Thus in May the committee recommended his suspension pending the finalisation of the criminal case. [8] In March 2019, after Mohlaloga was sentenced to a lengthy prison term, the committee resolved that he should be removed from his ICASA office with immediate effect. [9]

Fraud and money laundering conviction

Mohlaloga was convicted of fraud and money laundering in January 2018. [7] The charges arose from transactions completed in 2008 while Mohlaloga was chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Agriculture. The court found that he and two co-accused – the former acting head of the Land Bank, Philemon Mohlahlane, and attorney Dinga Rammy Nkwashu – had defrauded the Land Bank of an amount of R6 million, which was transferred unlawfully from Agri-BEE (a grant programme for black farmers) to the defendants. Disallowed from applying for Agri-BEE grants themselves, Mohlaloga and Mohlahlane had other individuals – Mohlaloga's friends in the ANC Youth League – front the application. They used the money, among other things, to buy two BMWs for Mohlaloga. [10] [11] Mohlaloga conceded that he had received money from an Agri-BEE grant, but claimed that it was a loan. [11]

In February 2019, a year after his initial conviction, Mohlaloga's sentence was handed down: the Pretoria Special Commercial Crimes Court sentenced him to 20 years in prison. However, he and his co-accused were also granted leave to appeal the sentencing, and he was released on R70,000 bail. [12] [10] In January 2023, the Gauteng High Court dismissed the appeals against Mohlaloga's conviction and sentence. [11]

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Rubben Mohlaloga
Member of the National Assembly
In office
23 April 2004 –May 2009