The return of seized vehicles to businesswoman Shauwn Mpisane has sparked a fresh row.
|||Durban - The return of seized vehicles to businesswoman Shauwn Mpisane has sparked a fresh row, with the curator denying that the two prized Rolls Royces he was still holding were unable to start.
“There is nothing wrong with them,” said Trevor White of PwC, the court-appointed official in restraining R70 million in Mpisane assets.
“I was right there when the cars I released to them, after they deposited R5.63 million, were moved out,” he said. “The drivers had to manoeuvre the two Rolls Royces out of the storage warehouse first, allowing them to move out the others.
“They started first time,” said White. He said all those vehicles he had returned to the Mpisanes had been in good order.
White contradicted the version of Mpisane’s lawyer, Themba Majola, reflected in the Daily News on Friday, that the Rolls Royces could not be started. He had said on Thursday night a specialist technician was being flown from Johannesburg to examine them.
White said the report of faulty Rolls Royces was simply untrue. He had not released them because the value of the restrained vehicles was about R15m, and a further R10m or so was still owed by Mpisane.
They would be returned once the money had been deposited, White said, converting assets at risk into cash.
Daily News