Two former employees of engineering firm Asea Brown Boveri have been arrested along with their wives in connection with an allegedly inflated multimillion-rand contract for work at Eskom's Kusile power station. | J_chabalala
Two former Asea Brown Boveri employees and their wives have been arrested in connection with an allegedly inflated multimillion-rand Eskom contract.
It is alleged that they received cash and cars from a company ABB sub-contracted, called Impulse International.The Investigating Directorate arrested the four people as part of a multi-agency initiative involving the Hawks and SARS in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal and Middelburg in Mpumalanga after raiding their premises.
Fin24 previously reported that former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko was accused of promising ABB R6.5 billion in future contracts if it sub-contracted work on Kusile to Impulse International, a company partially owned by his stepdaughter, Koketso Choma.
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