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Fin24 reports that a former Eskom financial controller, Mosia Barnard Moraka, has been sentenced to an effective 20 years in prison. Moraka and Eskom service provider Victor Vilosi Tshabalala were each found guilty of 53 counts of fraud and theft that cost Eskom R35 million, Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha reported.
Tshabalala also received a 20-year prison sentence. Apart from the jail time, the Palm Ridge Commercial Crimes Court also ordered that the properties of the two be sold and the proceeds paid directly to Eskom. The properties were placed under a preservation order in November 2021. Moraka was employed by Eskom as a financial controller for primary energy until 2018, when he resigned. He colluded with Tshabalala between January 2016 and October 2018 to defraud the power utility of R35 million by loading fake invoices for coal transport. Tshabala is the owner of Meagra Transport Close Corporation, and the charge sheet against him states that the company never transported coal from the Palesa Mine in Mpumalanga to the Clewer Rail Route and had no contract with the state-owned entity, despite receiving 53 payments to this effect. The two were arrested in 2019, following an investigation by Eskom’s audit and forensics department.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard at Fin24
- Lees ook, Eskom-bedrieërs moet 20 jaar sit, by Maroela Media
- As well as, Eskom welcomes 20-year jail sentence for two fraudsters, at Engineering News
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