The Need for Transparency and Openness about Corruption - Wherever it Occurs: How TAC has handled a case of attempted internal fraud
23 August 2011
In December 2010 a TAC employee attempted to defraud TAC of R300,000. We have decided to tell the details of this story for these reasons:
1. TAC has always upheld high standards of accountabiity. We seek to be a model of a responsible civil society organisation. In 2003, we also issued a public statement about a staff member, Onos Imhanwa, who defrauded the organisation. That statement is here:
2. By highlighting this case and naming the perpetrator we want to discourage future efforts to commit fraud.
3. It is important that there is a factually correct record of what happened rather than inaccurate rumours. We believe organisations are almost always better served by being transparent, open and forthcoming when they are the victims of incidents such as this.