German Firm Faces Payback Bill in South Africa DeutscheWelle: SouthAfrica
South Africa's Special Investigating Unit has applied to the Special Tribunal seeking an order for SAP to pay back €55 million , which are fees paid to it for deals it scored with the country's ailing power utility, Eskom when former PresidentThe Special Tribunal has the same powers as the courts of law and serves as a recovery unit for government assets and wrongfully acquired funds.
The SIU filed papers to the tribunal demanding the return of the funds after finding that the payments did not adhere to the proper procurement laws. SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago told DW that the unit is not commenting at this stage because it has only filed a motion with the tribunal and is still waiting for a date when the matter will be heard.The AmaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism Investigations found that SAP hired business development partners that sourced contracts for it in state-owned enterprises.was one of those partners, and it managed to clinch lucrative deals for SAP at Eskom.
In return, the company was well remunerated by SAP, although according to the SIU papers, it is still being determined what exactly it did. "Once the money was paid into these Gupta front companies, it very quickly filtered into the rest of the Gupta empire," AmaBhungane investigative journalist Susan Comrie told local media.She says it remains to be seen what SAP's next course of action will be."What is going to be fascinating is whether in the face of this, SAP agrees to simply say we will pay back the money or they are actually going to take that further step of responding to the allegations.
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