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City Press reports that Eskom has taken a former employee and two coal suppliers to court, saying they should repay money to the parastatal that was exchanged as kickbacks.
The power utility, through the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), is demanding almost R3 million from its former manager Thulani Zulu, as well as companies Commodity Logistics Managers and Siba Grand Business Enterprises. “The defendants are liable to Eskom, jointly and severally, one paying and the other to be absolved, to pay over to Eskom the secret profits and unlawful benefits in these amounts,” reads the statement of the SIU filed on behalf of Eskom. According to the statement, which includes a breakdown of deposits made into Zulu’s bank account by the two companies, the total amount stands at R2,789,200. “The payments constituted secret profits received by Zulu as an employee of Eskom. The payments constituted kickbacks, gratuities, corruption, bribes, inducements and/or other benefits,” reads the documents filed before the SIU tribunal hearing. “Zulu acted in a manner involving a serious conflict between his own interests and Eskom’s business and financial interests,” the documents indicate. The payments were made to Zulu during 2016, when he was employed as a middle manager within the power utility’s coal supply unit, and the two companies had substantial business dealings with Eskom as coal suppliers. When the SIU began probing contracts at Eskom, Zulu resigned on 30 June last year.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Abram Mashego at City Press (subscriber access only)
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