Former lecturer and South African Football Association (SAFA) president Daniel ‘Danny’ Jordan, SAFA Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Gronie Hluyo, and businessman Trevor Neethling are in hot water with the law after they were arrested on charges of defrauding the organisation of approximately R1,3 million.
The trio has since been released on R20 000 bail, as they were not considered a flight risk by the judge. Gronie and Trevor were ordered to hand their passports over while Danny was allowed to keep his passport while attending SAFA duties. The matter has since been postponed to 5 December 2024.
According to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), the trio were each charged with three counts of fraud, three counts of theft and a conspiracy to commit theft and fraud. The state accuses the SAFA president of using the organisation’s finances for personal gain, such as hiring a communications company to handle the cleansing of his image following rape allegations filed against him.
Furthermore, Danny is accused of using SAFA funds to employ a private security firm for his personal protection, despite not receiving the permission of the organisation’s board.
“The state alleges that Jordaan, in contravention of the SAFA statutes, signed the SLA that was neither sanctioned nor approved by SAFA and that he and Neethling backdated the agreement to 01 October 2017. Jordaan is alleged to have employed Grit Communications for the purposes of protecting his personal image following allegations of rape levelled against him in 2017.
“Furthermore, he allegedly acquired protection services worth over R40 000, purported to be for SAFA from Badger Security, during the SAFA 2018 elective congress, whilst these protection services were allegedly exclusively rendered to him,” says NPA spokesperson, Phindi Mjonondwane.
Allegations of fraud against Danny initially surfaced earlier in March of this year, where the Hawks seized a laptop, external hard drives, a USB stick, as well as some documents.
According to Daily Sun, the Hawks have compiled quite a comprehensive charge sheet for the SAFA president and his co-accused, with more charges related to “the allegedly inflated R70 million paid for the Fun Valley Resort and Entertainment Centre in the south of Joburg and the controversial winding down of the 2010 Fifa World Cup Legacy Trust,” set to come up.
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