By Johnathan Paoli
North West businessman Suleiman Carrim has claimed that he was “played” by controversial “fixer” Oupa Brown Mogotsi and businessman Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala, describing himself as a middleman caught in a web of misrepresentation, political name-dropping and failed payments linked to a lucrative police medical services tender.
Appearing before the Madlanga Commission on Monday, Carrim, owner and director of private security firm Fusion Tactical Team and a shareholder in funding vehicle Ziggy, said his dealings with Matlala and Mogotsi left him R8.25 million out of pocket after he advanced R10 million to support operations tied to a SAPS contract.
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“It was clear that both of them were playing me. I was caught in the middle of them. I believed that they were in cahoots from what I see now…the two of them were playing
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