Jordaan was arrested on Wednesday on prices of fraud and theft. (File photograph)
South African Soccer Affiliation (Safa) president Danny Jordaan appeared on the Specialised Industrial Crimes Court docket in Palm Ridge on Wednesday on felony prices.
73-year-old Jordaan was joined by former Safa chief monetary officer Gronnie Hluyo, 55, and businessman Trevor Neethling, 46. The boys are dealing with prices of fraud and theft.
They have been granted R20,000 bail every, topic to strict circumstances.
Jordaan was permitted to retain his passport beneath a conditional association requiring court docket notification earlier than any journey. Ought to Jordaan’s place at Safa change, the court docket mentioned his journey restrictions might be reassessed.
Hluyo and Neethling have been ordered to give up their passports and chorus from interfering with witnesses.
Additional stipulations for Hluyo and Neethling embrace notifying the court docket of any journey wants exterior South Africa and sustaining their verified addresses.
The trio’s court docket look adopted their early-morning arrest in Johannesburg by the Severe Industrial Crime Investigation unit, which it mentioned had been pursuing allegations of economic misconduct involving Safa’s sources.
The accusations, stemming from an investigation into actions between 2014 and 2018, recommend that Jordaan misappropriated Safa funds for private use, together with hiring a personal safety agency and interesting a public relations firm with out Safa board approval.
In keeping with the Nationwide Prosecuting Company, the allegations stem from a 12-month Service Degree Settlement (SLA) allegedly entered by Safa, represented by Jordaan, and Grit Communications, in December 2017 “for the supply of Public Relations and communication companies to SAFA”.
The State alleges that Jordaan, in contravention of Safa statutes, signed the SLA that was neither sanctioned or authorized by SAFA, and that he and Neethling backdated the settlement to 01 October 2017.
“Jordaan is alleged to have employed Grit Communications for functions of defending his private picture following allegations of rape levelled in opposition to him in 2017. Moreover, that he allegedly acquired safety companies value over R40 000, presupposed to be for Safa from Badger Safety, in the course of the SAFA 2018 elective congress, while these safety companies have been allegedly completely rendered to him.”
Investigators allege the unauthorised expenditures resulted in an estimated R1.3 million loss for the organisation.
The investigation reached a essential level on March 8, 2024, when the Severe Industrial Crime Investigation unit executed search and seizure warrants at Safa’s places of work.
Authorities confiscated digital gadgets and paperwork, which contributed to constructing the case in opposition to Jordaan, Hluyo, and Neethling, the latter of whom owns Grit Communications.
The case has been postponed to December 5, when disclosure of the docket is anticipated.