Former Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa boss Lucky Montana, along with his alleged corruptors and their enablers, could be facing charges for their alleged crimes.

The Special Investigating Unit's (SIU) recent success in securing an interim preservation order for two properties that former Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) boss Lucky Montana acquired through alleged corruption should be the impetus the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) needs to finally institute prosecutions in relation to this more than decade-old matter.

Following the SIU's recent announcement that it had provisionally frozen Montana's assets, most of the media coverage dealt only with the former Prasa boss's role in the scandal.

Read more Unlucky Montana faces asset freeze as SIU traces Prasa money trail July 27, 2026 But the Prasa/Siyangena saga is one populated by an array of alleged corruptors and corruptees. There are also several alleged enablers who assisted in moving the alleged illicit gains from the Prasa contractor to the SOE's embattled former boss.

What the NPA currently has access to is nothing short of a minutely detailed blueprint that should guide it towards successful prosecutions pertaining to one of the State Capture era's costlier alleged heists.

This reporter in 2015 first exposed suspicious property dealings that linked Montana to an associate of Siyangena's directors, giving birth to the hypothesis that the company was...