SAP held its annual general meeting in May 2017 in Mannheim, Germany. A month later, the #GuptaLeaks broke and soon SAP found itself embroiled in allegations that it paid more than R100-million in apparent kickbacks to secure work at Transnet and Eskom.
Global software giant SAP was warned five times over five years that paying commissions for help securing public sector contracts in South Africa was an invitation to corruption.
But for the most part, these warnings were ignored, former SAP Africa chief financial officer Deena Pillay told the Special Investigating Unit.
Pillay is one of the three executives who resigned from SAP after our #GuptaLeaks investigations revealed that SAP had paid over R100-million in commissions to Gupta-controlled companies for help securing software deals at Transnet and Eskom.
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