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COVID-19 latest: Bus company staff suspended for sale of fake tests
A bus company worker has been suspended for selling fake COVID-19 tests/results travellers at the Johannesburg Park Station.
Bus company staff has been suspended after an investigation by the
Daily Maverick revealed that fake COVID-19 tests are sold to passengers travelling to neighbouring countries from Johannesburg Park Station.
In an interview with
Cape Talk Radio, investigative reporter Patrick Egwu revealed that a friend who works in Zimbabwe had tipped him off about the sale of fake Covid-19 tests for just R300. He decided to go under cover to investigate the claim.
A
DM168 investigation published on 24 April had exposed the sale of fake Covid test results by bus company agents to passengers travelling to neighbouring countries from Johannesburg’s Park Station.
“We suspended him immediately, based on the report,” said Luqmaan Kroet, the director of Luqmaan Logistics in a phone interview with
Daily Maverick. “While we are busy with our investigation. We don’t want people to hamper the outcome. We have zero tolerance for issues like these and cannot allow it to happen.”
Kroet says the company reported the matter at the Johannesburg Central Police Station.
“We want to get to the bottom of this and the police said they have escalated the matter with the commercial crimes department,” he said.