BusinessLive reports that Vodacom dismissed 631 workers and contractors for fraud in the year to end-March after the mobile communications group investigated more than 8,000 cases.
“From April 1 2023 to March 31 2024 the group’s corporate security divisions investigated over 8,652 cases of alleged fraud or irregularities, of which 6,872 related to external cases and 1,780 to internal cases. The end result ensured the arrest of 15 suspects and the dismissal of 631 staff/contractors,” the group advised in its annual report issued on Friday. The cases were reported and identified through various channels, including direct reports received from customers, service providers, online reports, referrals from business, the fraud management system and external whistle-blowing. The group said that to promote ethical conduct throughout the group it has had a formal ethics management programme in place since 2006. The group said its antibribery and anticorruption programme required all employees, suppliers, contractors, and strategic and business partners to abide by anticorruption laws in conducting business on behalf of Vodacom.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kabelo Khumalo at BusinessLive
- Read too, Fifteen Vodacom workers arrested, over 630 axed over fraud and irregularities, at Fin24
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