The cash-strapped Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) paid more than R57-million to a company owned by a sister of 'Dr' Daniel Mtimkulu, the SOE's disgraced former chief engineer. Scorpio's latest investigation shows Mtimkulu himself orchestrated the deal. Most alarmingly, well-placed sources claim that the company didn't do any work in exchange for the millions it received from Prasa.
In late November 2013, "Dr" Daniel Mtimkulu, Prasa's former executive manager for engineering services, penned a memorandum for the attention of his boss, the then group CEO Lucky Montana.
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