Great train robbery - Prasa wants money back

Bosses at the beleaguered parastatal want former chief engineer Daniel Mtimkhulu to refund all the money paid to him in the four years he held the position .

The company is also considering attaching his assets while pursuing criminal charges against him for allegedly falsely claiming to have a doctorate in engineering.

On Monday‚ senior railways managers demanded that the scope of an investigation into falsified qualifications be extended to the entire company.

Prasa group chief strategy officer Sipho Sithole confirmed that the agency would try to recover all the money Mtimkhulu earned and to file fraud charges against him.