The Zondo commission has heard that Parliament’s House Chairperson Cedric Frolick received R40 000 in cash bribes from Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson.
Former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi told the commission on Friday that he had witnessed on two occasions Frolick being handed a security bag filled with money.
Frolick is the latest ANC politician to be implicated in Agrizzi’s explosive evidence.
The former right-hand man for Watson now turned whistleblower, told the commission that around 2010 Watson had become concerned about the public reports about Bosasa.
In an effort to change public perception, Watson wooed Frolick in an attempt to get closer to former correctional services committee chair Vincent Smith.
Smith at the time was against Bosasa and thought very little of the company which was accused of corrupt dealings following the conclusion of the Special Investigative Unit’s report into the company.
Agrizzi said he was introduced to Frolick through
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