Lamborghinis Show $116 Million South Africa Hospital Graft (1)

Criminal syndicates in South Africa spent ill-gotten gains from looting a state-run hospital on trophy assets, including properties in exclusive locales, Lamborghinis, a Bentley and a luxury boat, a probe showed.

At least three major syndicates and several smaller groups co-ordinated with provincial government officials and health-care workers to loot more than 2 billion rand ($116 million) from Tembisa Hospital, north of Johannesburg, according to an interim report by the Special Investigating Unit.

They bypassed procurement processes, won contracts using fraudulent documents and received payments for goods that in many cases weren’t supplied, the investigation by the anti-corruption body showed. ...