Mieszala was testifying before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture via a video link from Paris.
Mieszala, and other senior partners who appeared before the commission on Thursday and Friday, claimed they were unaware that their fellow partner Vikas Sagar, who ran the South African office, was colluding with Gupta henchman Salim Essa to bring Regiments Capital – which later morphed into Trillian management consultants – in as BBBEE required supply development partners.
This, evidence before the commission has revealed, resulted in up to 50% of Regiments’ fees from state entities being laundered through shell companies set up by Essa. Fees from Transnet alone resulted in R100-million fed to shell companies.