A former accountant at Eskom has to cough up all the money he stole from the utility.
Power utility Eskom has been granted an order against a former middle-management accountant, who has to pay back over R500,000 that he stole from the company through fraudulent activity.
An Eskom investigation found that the former employee created invoices and submitted them for payment as if work had been done when, in fact, there was no work done.The money was channelled through the suppliers and was withdrawn as cash by companies, of which the employee had direct control. A case of fraud, to which he pleaded guilty on 20 July 2022, was registered with the South African Police Service in December 2012. He was subsequently found guilty by the Kriel Regional Court on 26 April 2023 and was sentenced to eight years in prison, wholly suspended for five years, on certain conditions, including that he repaid Eskom.
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