In May this year, the SIU obtained an interim order freezing the amount in the account belonging to Thephunokhetja Projects.
Eskom's suspended coal operations senior manager,Platt said Mazibuko failed to disclose this to his employer, Eskom.
“He has agreed with us that he has not disclosed. Therefore on a balance of probabilities, you have to find he did not disclose,” Platt said. Platt said Commodity and Thembathlo – the two companies which paid millions into a bank account which the SIU has asked to be forfeited – cannot account why these payments were being made and did not provide the tribunal with the defences as to why Petrus Mazibuko is the sole signatory of the account.
He said Mazibuko did not influence any contract award at Eskom and disputed knowing that Commodity was doing business with Eskom.
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