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The State can reinstate the case in future as long as it gets written instructions from the National Director of Public Prosecutions. Trade union Solidarity said should the State fail in this regard, they would pursue private prosecution.
The matter relates to billions of rands worth of contracts for work at the Kusile power station that allegedly went to companies linked to former Eskom boss Matshela Koko’s friends and family.
The Eyewitness News bulletin with Jane Dutton.
The Middelburg Regional Court has struck the corruption case against former Eskom boss, Matshela Koko, and 18 others from the roll.
More than a year after the first arrests and with the trial still not out of the starting blocks, the Middelburg Regional Court found the case had been unreasonably delayed and struck the matter from the roll.
The matter relates to billions of rands worth of contracts for work at the Kusile power station that allegedly went to companies linked to Koko’s friends and family.
The matter relates to billions of rands worth of contracts for work at Kusile power station that went to companies linked to Koko’s friends and family and is considered a seminal state capture case.
The return to court by the former Eskom boss and his co-accused who were arrested on fraud, corruption and money laundering charges in October 2022, will be to establish if there’s been an unreasonable delay in the case.
The former acting CEO of Eskom was charged with 7 others for charges including fraud, corruption and money laundering relating to a multibillion-rand contract that Eskom entered into in 2015.
In court papers filed this week, he insisted that he only ever acted in what he believed were the best interests of Eskom but that the commission ignored his affidavits and didn’t properly interrogate witnesses who implicated him.
Foreign nationals from Germany and the UK are also implicated in Eskom corruption, alongside Matshela Koko and members of his family.
Koko and his co-accused face charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering, among others, some of which could see them spending a long time behind bars.
Former Eskom acting CEO Matshela Koko and three family members made their first court appearance in connection with state capture together with five co-accused on Thursday.
Koko was arrested alongside seven others earlier on Thursday including his wife, Mosima Koko, and two stepdaughters, Koketso Aren and Thato Choma.
The specialist corruption-busting unit handcuffed the suspects in a series of raids in Mpumalanga and Gauteng on Thursday morning.
It's been reported that former acting CEO as Eskom, Matshela Koko, was among the eight people arrested.
Advocate Chris McConnachie was representing Eskom and he said Koko’s evidence would leave the power utility tainted unless they cross-examined him.
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