R659m Tegeta bill 'startling', but bosses gave order to pay - official | Fin24
Receiving an instruction to complete a payment of R659m within just 1 hour and 22 minutes was"certainly startling", but a top official at Eskom says he and his team went along with it as the instruction came from the top of the company.
Nagar told the commission that he first heard of the proposed payment on April 12, 2016, when he received an email which included a proforma invoice for R659m payable to Tegeta.The next day he was phoned by Maya Naidoo, an official in the office of Eskom’s then-CFO Anoj Singh, ordering him to make the payment within two to three hours.
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