48 people arrested for criminal activities since SANDF deployment, says Eskom
Eskom said that since the members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) were deployed to its power stations, 48 people had been arrested for various criminal activities.
Soldiers were sent to various power stations in December, to reduce theft and sabotage at the utility.
The ailing power utility said that it had identified Mpumalanga as a hotspot for coal theft.
It said that despite the defence force not having any powers to arrest these suspects, there had been significant progress in reducing crime as the utility was not as vulnerable anymore.
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter said they needed to get to the root of these theft syndicates.
“However, we still need to get to the higher echelons of these syndicates, and this is where we anticipate that some of the intelligence we are sharing with the SSA [State Security Agency], as well as with Crime Intelligence, that this will start to bear fruit.”
-EWN
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