🚨🚔💨Eskom employee and female truck driver 🚚arrested for stealing R1 million 💰worth of electricity-generating fuel. Eskom loadshedding loadsheddingupdate crimeinsa TheCitizenNews Read the story⬇️
The heavy fuel oil worth over R1 million wasn't delivered to Matla Power Station in Secunda as claimed. Picture: Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambuemployee and a 41-year-old female truck driver have been arrested in connection with the theft of heavy fuel oil worth over R1 million.
The duo who have since appeared in the Kriel Magistrate’s Court on a charge of theft and fraud were arrested on Wednesday, 19 July.spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said the pair allegedly worked together to defraud Eskom. “Eskom employee Sphiwe Sindane and Loveless Mabaso, a truck driver attached to a company subcontracted to supply heavy fuel oil to Eskom, were arrested for failing to deliver the oil to Matla Power Station in“It’s alleged that the pair sold and delivered the fuel oil to someone known to them and later submitted a fraudulent invoice to Eskom claiming to have delivered the fuel. Eskom suffered a loss of R1 million,” said Mathe.
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