Prasa to recover a fraction of R2.3bn for ‘tall’ trains
Special Investigating Unit tells MPs it has been investigating how to recover the money from a company that got the tender
17 February 2021 - 17:21
The Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) stands to recover only R65m of the R2.3bn it paid upfront for locomotives that were too tall to run on SA’s railway lines.
That is according to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) which made a presentation to parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday...
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