Former acting Eskom chief executive officer Matshela Koko has been arrested in connection with a multibillion-rand tender awarded to Swiss conglomerate Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) at Kusile Power Station.
Eskom contractor Asea Brown Boveri paid R549 million to its subcontractor, Impulse International. About R200m was used to pay other companies to do the work, while Impulse paid a network of former ABB employees and others to facilitate the scheme.
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Power utility Eskom says the four arrests in relation to a corrupt ABB Group contract for work at the Kusile power station is hopefully just the beginning, with more arrests expected to follow soon.