The Cape Town-based doctor of businessman Suliman Carrim has been subpoenaed to appear before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into alleged police capture. The commission has questioned the legitimacy of Carrim’s latest sick note after whistle-blowers reported seeing him at a Western Cape shopping centre while he was supposedly hospitalised, reports News24.
Chief evidence leader Matthew Chaskalson said multiple independent sources placed Carrim at a mall for a lunch outing, prompting the commission to subpoena CCTV footage, hospital records and his doctor. The North West-based Carrim was due to resume his testimony about his business dealings with alleged Tembisa Hospital looters Vusimusi ‘Cat’ Matlala and Hangwani Morgan Maumela before the commission yesterday.
However, as was the case when Carrim was due to testify three weeks ago, his lawyers again furnished the commission with a medical note stating that he had been hospitalised on 17 June. ‘Late in the afternoon yesterday, we received two different whistle-blower reports, both confirming that Mr Carrim and an entourage had been seen yesterday going out for lunch at a shopping centre in the Western Cape. The two reports corroborated the same details,’ Chaskalson said. ‘They seemed to be independent of one another, and they’ve now been confirmed by eyewitnesses at that shopping centre, who we have independently contacted…’
‘For now, we have a concern that Mr Carrim may be taking liberties with this commission, and that concern is amplified by other whistle-blower reports that we’ve received indicating that Mr Carrim has been seen at social gatherings in the North West over his period of ostensible incapacity,’ Chaskalson added. ‘We are going to issue a subpoena later today to the hospitals at which (Carrim) has been receiving treatment to establish when he was admitted and when he was discharged, since he testified at the commission. We’re also going to be issuing a subpoena to his doctor, who’s based in Cape Town, to establish the dates on which he has seen Mr Carrim, and we don’t expect that it will take us more than a day to obtain this information.’
News24 – Chaskalson subpoenas ‘sick’ Carrim’s hospital records after alleged Western Cape mall jaunt
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