Former Passenger Rail Association of South Africa (Prasa) head, Lucky Montana allegedly asked an IT specialist to wipe his laptop\u00a0thought to contain “sensitive” data relating to the rail company.<\/p>\n
This is according to a report by the City Press, quoting IT technician Othusitse Mogolelwa, who was fired from Prasa in April.\u00a0Mogolelwa submitted a signed affidavit making the claim.<\/p>\n
He said that Montana had asked him to “clean” his laptop and tablet computer before the devices were to be handed to investigators looking into Prasa’s financial affairs.<\/p>\n
Montana was fired from Prasa in July 2015 following a massive mess up at the company in which it purchased billions of rands worth of locomotives that were not suitable for South African rail lines.<\/p>\n
Montana defended the purchases, as well as the group’s head engineer who made the initial assessments – who was later fired, as he was not a registered engineer at all.<\/p>\n
Mogolelwa was described as Montana’s “go-to” IT guy, and was found by investigators to have various forensic tools at his disposal at the agency. A source said he could run his own “rogue intelligence unit” out of his office with all the tools.<\/p>\n
According to a report by the Sunday Times, Montana has now also been linked to an alleged plot by the Gupta family and president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane to capture a R51 billion tender at Prasa.<\/p>\n
The details of attempted capture of Prasa, are contained in a letter written Montana, in October 2012.<\/p>\n
Montana said he “blasted” the\u00a0Guptas and Duduzane Zuma’s proposal.<\/p>\n
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