Jaap Burger: MPs subpoena brigadier over Eskom corruption probe
Parliament’s Scopa has ‘unanimously resolved’ to subpoena Brigadier Jaap Burger after he failed to appear before it on numerous occasions.
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Parliament’s Scopa has ‘unanimously resolved’ to subpoena Brigadier Jaap Burger after he failed to appear before it on numerous occasions.
Brigadier Jap Burger was named by former Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, as the police officer to whom he reported findings of a covert intelligence-gathering exercise at the power utility.
Parliament’s watchdog on public spending, Scopa, insisted on Tuesday that retired brigadier Jap Burger must appear before it.
On Tuesday, 12 September, about 42 minutes into proceedings, Advocate Andy Mothibi, head of the SIU, had stated the following: 'The [files] cannot be ignored, because [they] have information that can point to … areas that require investigation. That is clear.'
National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola has defended the no-show of a senior police official who was due before Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Wednesday.