to oppose a compliance notice issued by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission instructing it to retrieve the R4.3-billion it invested in Ayo.
Testimony before the PIC commission, headed by Judge Lex Mpati, has revealed how former chief executive Dan Matjila overlooked governance and approval processes and signed of the deal despite concerns raised by employees that Ayo was overpriced and had no business merit. “The correct circumstances are that by the time the CIPC issued its Compliance Notice on 21 February 2019, the PIC, together with its attorneys of record Gwina Attorneys Inc and its Counsel were already working on the recovery process… which they are still engaged with,” said the PIC.
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