were charged with multiple counts of tax evasion, pay and you earn tax and refund fraud last month, over which the doctor and his wife Nerupa, the hospital’s financial manager, and several former staff members, are out on bail.
Dayanand is also being investigated by the Hawks for an alleged R100 000 bribe paid to former health department officials to facilitate the hospital’s re-registration in 2015, after his former accountant, Brendan Pillay, turned whistleblower allegedly in retaliation for being fired.Subscribe to the M&G today for just R30 for the first three months* to gain access to this story and all our best journalism, subscriber-only newsletters, events and a weekly cryptic crossword.