Outa lays charges against suspended Eskom executive Matshela Koko
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has laid criminal charges against Koko over his role in helping the Guptas buy the Optimum coal mine
Civic group Outa has laid criminal charges against suspended Eskom executive Matshela Koko. "We have built a solid case against Koko with evidence of misconduct in his role as an Eskom executive and his relationship with the Guptas," have been laid by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) chief operating officer Ben Theron said in a statement on Thursday morning.According to Outa, Koko engineered a coal "emergency" by removing Just Coal as one of Eskom’s suppliers shortly before he assisted the Gupta family’s Tegeta to receive the billions from Eskom needed to acquire Glencore’s South African colliery group Optimum.This was in December 2015, a year before Koko was appointed Eskom’s interim CEO and while he was the utility’s executive in charge of generation, which included oversight of coal contracts."Koko is accused of using his position at Eskom to help the Guptas to buy Optimum Coal Holdings and its Optimum and Koornfontein coal mines from Glencore, by helping put those busi...
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