Engineering News reports that the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and Transnet have welcomed a judgment handed down by Judge Lebogang Modiba in terms of which former Transnet employee Herbert Msagala must pay back R26.4-million to Transnet.

The special tribunal found on 31 August that Msagala illegally received payments between 2015 and 2016 from a Transnet service provider, IGS Consulting Engineers, while employed full time by Transnet. The SIU and Transnet instituted civil matters in the special tribunal in July 2020 to order to recover the money that Msagala had received from a tender with IGS Consulting. The state-owned logistics company indicated in a statement that the judgment was a key step in ensuring accountability and consequence management for executives who might have been involved in criminal activity while employed at Transnet. Transnet further said it would continue to work with the SIU and other law enforcement agencies to ensure justice was served on all those found guilty of wrongdoing. SIU head Advocate Andy Mothibi said that the ruling was “a continuation of implementation of the SIU investigation outcomes and consequence management to recover financial losses suffered by State institutions, including State-owned entities like Transnet".

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