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Suzanne Daniels alleged that Salim Essa made the offer in June 2017 after stopping next to her at a service station in a black Maserati and that he knew exactly what she had said at a previous meeting of Eskom’s audit and risk committee about Koko.
A screenshot of the former head of legal and compliance at Eskom, Suzanne Daniels, who appeared in the state capture investigation on September 15, 2020. image: SABC / YouTube
CAPE TOWN – Former Eskom company secretary Suzanne Daniels told the state’s capture inquiry commission on Tuesday that Gupta’s associate, Salim Essa, offered her a rand 800 million bribe to make sure the former executive Matshela Koko became the executive director of the electric company.
Daniels alleged that Essa made the offer in June 2017 after stopping next to her at a fuel station in a black Maserati.
He claimed that Essa knew exactly what he had said at a previous meeting of Eskom’s audit and risk committee, where Daniels had made it clear that a report clarifying to Koko, who was suspended at the time in connection with a contract issued with the his daughter’s company, Impulse International: could not be accepted at face value and had to be questioned.
Daniels said that she rejected Essa’s bribery offer with a laugh, telling her that Koko was unfit to be Eskom’s CEO.
But Supreme Court Vice President Raymond Zondo wanted to know why Daniels agreed to meet with Essa just one month after she turned him down.
Daniels said Essa told him she wanted to discuss former CEO Brian Molefe’s court case regarding the payment of his multi-million rand pension.
Daniels said he agreed because he was “morbidly curious.” But a clearly furious Zondo challenged her.
“I found it quite amazing that someone I flatly rejected …” Daniels said.
Zondo interrupted, saying, “You shouldn’t want to talk to that person after that, Ms. Daniels. You shouldn’t want to take your calls after you offered R800 million to do something wrong. You shouldn’t want to talk to that person … if you had their number, you should [have] blocked your number, right? So what were you going to do to meet him for a weekend? “
Daniels said Essa took her to a semi-detached house where Ajay Gupta, Duduzane Zuma and then-Deputy Minister of Public Enterprises Ben Martins and a woman were.
She alleged that Gupta spoke of the need to “find someone” in the deputy judge’s office for the president to help with the Molefe case, and claimed that he also said it would be easier to deal with the matter once Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma arrived. “to the power”. .
Martins denied being present at such a meeting.
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