ID refers Matshela Koko magistrate for investigation over possible conflict

The NPA’s Investigating Directorate (ID) announced on Thursday that it had referred a complaint to the Magistrates’ Commission, asking it to investigate whether Stanley Jacobs, the magistrate in the former Eskom boss Matshela Koko’s corruption matter, had had a conflict of interest.In November last year, Jacobs, at the Middelburg specialised commercial crimes court, struck Koko’s fraud, corruption and money-laundering case from the roll due to “unreasonable delay”.The matter involves charges of corruption in a R2.2bn control and instrumentation tender won by Zabb, the local…