NALA local municipality employees are accused of defrauding the municipality in an alleged petrol scam.
NALA local municipality employees are accused of defrauding the municipality in an alleged petrol scam.
Weak measures and controls that had been put in place to monitor the fuelling and accounting of vehicles were spotted in a KPMG forensic report.
The report has revealed that between 2007 and 2009, 207 vehicles belonging to employees were illegally filled up at the municipality's cost, which is estimated at more than R160000.
The municipality had a verbal agreement with three filling stations in Bothaville and one in Wesselsbron, where municipal vehicles were fuelled.
Two employees were arrested last year while filling up a vehicle belonging to one of them, following a tip-off by a whistle-blower who had spotted them at a filling station and alerted the police.
Petrol scam costs municipality plentiful
NALA local municipality employees are accused of defrauding the municipality in an alleged petrol scam.
NALA local municipality employees are accused of defrauding the municipality in an alleged petrol scam.
Weak measures and controls that had been put in place to monitor the fuelling and accounting of vehicles were spotted in a KPMG forensic report.
The report has revealed that between 2007 and 2009, 207 vehicles belonging to employees were illegally filled up at the municipality's cost, which is estimated at more than R160000.
The municipality had a verbal agreement with three filling stations in Bothaville and one in Wesselsbron, where municipal vehicles were fuelled.
Two employees were arrested last year while filling up a vehicle belonging to one of them, following a tip-off by a whistle-blower who had spotted them at a filling station and alerted the police.