Fuel fund loses appeal on refunding buyers of South Africa’s oil reserves

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Fuel fund loses appeal on refunding buyers of South Africa’s oil reserves: The appellate court said the Strategic Fuel Fund tried to play the victim when it was the author of the tainted sale of the country’s entire crude oil reserves

argued that a 2020 high court order went too far in awarding Contango Oil & Gas Company and energy and commodities trader Vitol compensation for hedging losses, insurance, letters of credit and inspection costs associated with their purchase of the country’s oil stocks.

The appeal against the remedial order, the SCA said, saw the Central Energy Fund and the Strategic Fuel Fund play the victim rather than accept responsibility. Gamede had repeatedly misled then energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson to secure her approval and lied about the transactions being vetted by the Strategic Fuel Fund when it had not been briefed about these.

“The board did not proactively intervene to ensure that the SFF and the country’s interests were safeguarded,” Rogers said. The Central Energy Fund and the Strategic Fuel Fund had argued that the high court failed to properly consider the public interest in preventing bribery and “protecting the public purse from funding corrupt transactions”. It ignored the “no profit” principle, the argument went, because Contango and Vitol had failed to do basic due diligence and were not innocent parties.

 

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