Special Investigating Unit head Advocate Andy Mothibi says the fact that former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter did not receive board authorisation to commission a private intelligence investigation into criminality and sabotage at the State-owned utility raises potentially grave governance issues. Nevertheless, he stresses that the report’s content “cannot be ignored” and is proving useful in guiding several ongoing investigations. In a presentation to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), Mothibi confirmed that George Fivaz Forensics and Risk (GFFR) had been appointed by Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) to conduct the probe in a contract facilitated by De Ruyter, who “was acting on his own”.
André de Ruyter
Mothibi said that, while De Ruyter might have been acting with good intentions, undertaking a private investigation into a State institution without the necessary authority points to possible “maladministration”. No specific recommendation was immediately provided regarding what action should be taken against either De Ruyter or BLSA, with Mothibi indicating that it planned to make such a recommendation only once various further enquires had been completed.
That said, he also insisted that the SIU and the law-enforcement agencies, which had since had sight of the GFFR document, were not discounting the substance of the report and were actively pursuing several leads.of the Hawks, who also made a presentation to Scopa, would be drawn on the names of the senior politicians identified in the report as having links to coal cartels in Mpumalanga.
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