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BBC Monitoring South Africa's special tribunal has ordered German multinational company SAP to pay back 500m rand ($26m; £20m) that the firm reportedly earned through corrupt contracts.
The world through its media The country's anti-corruption body says that the contracts - signed between SAP and public power company Eskom - did not comply with public finance management laws, resulting in "fruitless and wasteful expenditures" for Eskom.
The two contracts were entered between 2013 and 2016 and were valued at $58m.
Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council member Gen Ibrahim Jabir Ibrahim has said that the military would form “a technocratic government” to run the affairs of the country until elections are held. The payment order follows a settlement agreement between SAP and the anti-corruption agency Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
While addressing military officers and other officials in the eastern city of Gedaref on Monday, Gen Ibrahim said there would be a non-political transitional period in the country, state-owned Sudan News Agency (Suna) reported. The Special Tribunal last week upheld the settlement and termed the contracts "constitutionally invalid".
He said the "technocratic government will manage the affairs of the Sudanese people and prepare for elections". SIU said on Monday that the payment was part of efforts "to recover financial losses suffered by state institutions due to negligence or corruption".
“The armed forces will not enter any agreement with politicians.” "The settlement agreement does not absolve SAP or any implicated party from possible prosecution."
Gen Ibrahim's remarks came days after another Sovereign Council member, Lt Gen Yasir al-Atta, said the army would not cede power to civilian groups until after elections are held in the country. SAP is required to remit the payment to SIU within seven days.
But Gen Atta also urged pro-army activist groups to form a government to run the country in a move that would have excluded the former civilian coalition the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), which shared power with the army before the October 2021 coup. In January, the company
The army accuses FFC of backing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces but the group denies the allegation. agreed to pay more than $220m to settle bribery charges involving
government officials in several countries, including South Africa.
It allegedly paid millions in fees to consultants in South Africa, despite no work being performed, and funded trips to New York for government officials, including golf outings.
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