The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) is heading to court in a bid to recover damages from several senior SAA Technical (SAAT) executives for their role in alleged irregular purchases of ground power units. "In 2016, SAAT sold all 12 of its GPUs [ground power units] to JM Aviation — a decision which resulted in a loss of over R5m," Numsa’s Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said in a statement. "We believe that the decision to sell the GPUs was motivated by corruption because JM Aviation benefited at the expense of SAAT. "Our allegation is based on the findings of the Open Water forensic report‚ which was finalised in May 2017," he said, referring to a report by the Open Water risk-management consultancy. Numsa first made its demand that executives repay the more than R5m that SAAT lost in September 2017, when the report was made public.
According to Hlubi-Majola‚ the Open Water forensic report confirms that the sale of the ground power units was irregular and that proper suppl...
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