I should have pushed back on Clive’s instructions more. When Van Rooyen was shifted to cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) days later, Bobat followed him.įrom what I know now, I am ashamed that I did not do more. Bobat arrived at the National Treasury as Van Rooyen’s adviser. In December 2015, the then president Jacob Zuma fired Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and appointed Des van Rooyen. Goodson heard Bobat was earmarked to take the TMC top job but had other opportunities. Bobat, an associate of TCP CEO Eric Wood, interviewed Goodson in late 2015 along with Angel. Goodson also testified on Mohamed Bobat’s alleged role in benefiting Trillian. It meant that their charge-out rate per hour was something close to like, I don’t know, half-a-million per hour considering how many hours they worked,” she testified. “For me, that was an exorbitant amount of money for two people. Two E-Gateway employees from India and the United Arab Emirates came to work on the project and TMC agreed to pay the company a “ludicrous” 70% of revenue from its power generation workstream, said Goodson.

Goodson said Angel told her Essa had an interest in the company. TMC subcontracted the Indian company E-Gateway to provide the technical skills for its Eskom duties. Eskom has sought to have Trillian liquidated to recover the funds. McKinsey, which has denied it knew Sagar was allegedly conspiring with Essa, has since repaid the fees it charged and in December 2020 its senior partner Jean-Christophe Mieszala told the commission the company had since introduced new risk controls to avoid a repeat situation.Ī court has ordered Trillian to repay its share. When she escalated her concerns to her boss Essa, he was adamant that Trillian wanted its projected R5-billion revenue from Eskom, regardless of whether McKinsey wanted it to work with the firm or not.Įskom paid Trillian R595-million and McKinsey more than R1-billion before the deal was terminated after a mere six months. She said McKinsey officials were dismissive, responding, “Why are you even complaining? You’re going to get paid anyway.” While Goodson was TMC’s only employee at the time, she continued to push McKinsey for her company to take a more active role in the Eskom project. “As a start-up company, Trillian making this kind of money over three years was bewildering.”

“For consulting, this was shocking, to say the least,” Goodson testified at the State Capture Commission on Thursday.

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