Tensions flare as Koko is questioned about Salim Essa emails ecr.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ecr.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko is going round in circles about how and when he found out that the infoportal email address was linked to Gupta associate Salim Essa.
Koko maintains he had no idea he was exchanging emails with a man likely to be Salim Essa
Former Eskom chief executive Matshela Koko on Monday flatly denied that he knowingly took instructions from outside the state power utility on structuring deals with the Gupta brothers’ business empire and that those directives came from Salim Essa.
Testifying before the Zondo commission into state capture, Koko said it only with hindsight that he could accept that he was corresponding with an external party and not as he was adamant he believed at the time with then Eskom chairperson Ben Ngubane.
Evidence leader Pule Seleka sought for some three hours to establish Koko’s knowledge of the true owner of the email address [email protected] and the real identity of his interlocutor, who was sometimes identified as “businessman”.
Highlights: Matshela Koko at State Capture Inquiry thesouthafrican.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thesouthafrican.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Koko at Zondo inquiry: I didn’t know I was emailing Gupta associate The former Eskom boss told the state capture commission that he didn’t know about the terms of the Tegeta guarantee that were sent from that email address. FILE: A screengrab of former Eskom executive Matshela Koko appearing at the state capture inquiry on 1 March 2021. Picture: SABC/YouTube
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JOHANNESBURG - Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko said he was flabbergasted he was made to send Eskom information to external parties now that it was known the email address called infoportal belonged to businessman and Gupta associate Salim Essa.