ABB, as an Eskom contractor, paid R549m to its subcontractor, Impulse International. An estimated R200m was used to pay other companies to do the work, while Impulse paid former ABB employees and others large sums of cash to facilitate the scheme.
Two former employees of Swiss engineering firm Asea Brown Boveri have been arrested, along with their wives, in connection with alleged kickbacks in exchange for inflated contracts awarded to Impulse International.
The move comes as South Africans face days of load shedding over generation capacity shortage, exacerbated by construction of the 5 500 MW Kusile power station which remains unfinished. The contracts, including a R2 billion control and instrumentation deal at Kusile, resulted in ABB paying Impulse International R549 million in 2016 and 2017 - at a time when former acting Eskom CEO Mathsela Koko's stepdaughter, Koketso Choma, was a shareholder of Impulse.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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