News flash
- A former contractor wanted in connection with a corruption case at Eskom’s Kusile coal power station involving R745 million, is being extradited to South Africa.
- Michael Lomas is expected to land at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg today and face 41 charges along with four other co-accused including two ex Eskom employees.
Lomas is set to stand trial with his co-accused former Eskom managers, Frans Hlakudi and Abram Masango, businessman Maphoko Kgomoeswana, and Tubular Construction CEO Antonio Trindade in the case where Eskom paid R745 million to Tubular Construction Projects, exposing the state-owned entity to R1.4 billion in costs as per the escalation of the contract.
All five accused are facing 41 charges of fraud, corruption, money laundering, and offering and receiving unauthorised gratifications.
The state alleges that Masango and Hlakudi fraudulently pushed for Tubular Construction Projects to be awarded a R745-million contract, signed in April 2016, to build air-cooled condensers at Kusile. Masango and Hlakudi had oversight of contracts in the Kusile build at the time.
Author: Bryan Groenendaal
