Anoj Singh maintained that Eskom’s agreement with the pair was signed in January 2016 but the commission showed him a letter that he wrote in February in which discussions were still ongoing.
Earlier on Monday, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said it was unacceptable that Singh didn’t begin at 10 am as scheduled.
Anoj Singh said that he did not know if sub-contractors were paid without contracts but if Trillian was paid without a contract, it was wrong.
Former CEO of Trillian Management Consulting, Bianca Goodson, told the state capture commission that she was told in October, two months before Mohamed Bobat was appointed, that he would move to better opportunities.
Former Trillian CEO Bianca Goodson told the state capture commission that Clive Angel is the one who called her and told her that Salim Essa was the majority shareholder.
In 2017, she blew the whistle on how Trillian’s management consulting arm earned money by introducing international companies to state-owned enterprises
They are Bianca Goodson, a former chief executive of Trillian, and Mosilo Mothepu, the former chief executive of Trillian Financial Advisory.
Msilo Mothepu said when Regiments offered her a job back in 2015, it gave her a blank cheque for her salary and Eric Wood told her they had acquired “blue-chip public-sector companies”.
The commission has reached an undertaking with McKinsey to pay back up to R650 million in fees it was paid by Transnet and the South African Airways (SAA).
Eskom CE André de Ruyter said the utility had a moral duty and legal obligation to do everything it could to claw back all the monies which were illegally paid out during the height of state capture.
In the party’s sights are Tegeta, Optimum and Trillian following findings by the BBBEE Commission that they were awarded the Eskom contracts after misrepresenting their status or using fraudulent certificates.
The judgment has also been scathing towards former Eskom executives Matshela Koko and Anoj Singh, who played a key role in approving payments to Trillian.
In March last year, the power utility sued both Trillian and McKinsey for the repayment of almost R1.6 billion allegedly unlawfully paid to them as a result of an invalid deal involving corruption and fraud.
The commission evidence leaders appointed Bloom to analyse the various financial advisory contracts Transnet entered into.
Acting group chief executive Mohammed Mohamedy said that Gupta-linked companies Regiments and Trillian were contracted to secure loans for Transnet.
Daniels shared her side of the story on the Eusebius McKaiser Show.
Eskom board chair Jabu Mabuza explained that by sending out the classified documents, former acting chief executive Matshela Koko gave McKinsey and Trillian an advantage.
Eskom’s former head of legal Suzanne Daniels has spoken out for the first time since she was dismissed in July after she was found guilty of misconduct about Eskom’s transactions with Trillian and McKinsey.
