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High court orders fraudster to pay water department R27 million
According to evidence filed in court in the fraud matter the total paid for non-existent goods was allegedly R30 756 613,13.
In a victory for taxpayers and the state against corruption the Pretoria High Court has ruled that a firm, which allegedly defrauded the Department of Water Affairs (DWA) for goods it was paid for but did not supply, repay the government the grand sum of R27,5 million.
Judge Norman Davis ordered that the Germiston firm, Metric Industrial Suppliers CC pay the sum to the department as well as its legal costs for the court application after Minister Lindiwe Sisulu filed the suit to recoup the losses. The sum relates to fraudulent invoices the firm’s employee Anand Pillay submitted to the department’s former Head of Supply Chain Management, Rick Nel between April 2006 and November 2009.