While South Africans are experiencing load shedding more frequently with no end in sight, dodgy Eskom deals are being brought to light.
Also read:ABB was paying Impulse International R549 million in 2016 and 2017, when former acting Eskom CEO Mathsela Koko’s stepdaughter, Koketso Choma, was a shareholder of Impulse.
Eskom said in a statement on Wednesday that the four were arrested by the Investigating Directorate of the National Prosecuting Authority for corruption that defrauded Eskom in a contract awarded to ABB in 2015.
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