Ex-Eskom CEO Matshela Koko arrested for alleged corruption
Former Eskom executive Matshela Koko at the parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption at the power utility on 24 January 2018. Picture; Gallo Images / Sowetan / Esa AlexanderAccording to, Koko was nabbed – alongside his wife, Mosima and stepdaughter, Koketso Choma – in connection to a multibillion-rand contract Eskom entered into with Swiss engineering company Asea Brown Boveri .
ABB, in 2015, was awarded a R2.2-billion control and instrumentation contract for Eskom’s Kusile Power Station located in Mpumalanga.In turn, ABB irregularly awarded a R549.6 million sub-contract to Impulse International, a company which was partially owned by Choma. It was previously reportedly that Koko had allegedly promised ABB more contracts to the value of R6.5-billion for work at other power plants if the company sub-contracted Impulse.
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