INDICATIONS OF MISMANAGEMENT
SAP comes clean on payments to Gupta-linked entities
Global software company SAP has found no evidence showing that any of its employees had direct contact with the Guptas in relation to contracts with Eskom and Transnet. However, there was evidence that payments were made to Gupta-linked entities, which included Duduzane Zuma’s CAD House. There were also indications of mismanagement in relation to the third-party companies and irregularities in adherence to SAP’s compliance processes. These are the findings of an investigation by international law firm Baker McKenzie of SAP’s public sector contracts in SA, which started in July 2017. The investigation found there was no money paid or any attempt to pay any government official or parastatal employee in connection with the Transnet and Eskom transactions. However, Philipp Klarmann, SAP investigations and anticorruption head, said SAP could not say if any of the third-party Gupta-linked entities had made such payments. Adaire Fox-Martin, SAP’s president of global customer operations Eur...
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