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Engineering News reports that the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries has placed eight officials on precautionary suspension, effective 8 October, following a forensic investigation into contracts alleged to have been irregularly awarded by the department's Waste Management Bureau (WMB).
During the audit of the financial statements for the year ended March 2019, the Auditor-General of SA identified a number of tenders that had been irregularly awarded. These included nine tenders awarded by the WMB with a total multiyear contract value of over R2-billion and expenditure for the 2018/19 financial year amounting to R337-million. An independent forensic company was appointed to conduct an investigation. In six of the nine tenders, the investigation found prima facie evidence of irregular appointments having arisen as a result of negligence, misconduct and/or possible fraud and corruption by certain officials of the department. The department is in the process of taking disciplinary steps in respect of misconduct identified in the report.
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