THE chartered accountant appointed to spearhead Mpumalanga’s campaign against financial fraud and corruption, Ivan Maswanganye, has admitted he is himself a fraud who has duped two provincial governments and Statistics SA. Maswanganye and his immediate family went into hiding at the weekend after confessing that he has not even passed matric. He pledged, however, to make a full sworn statement on how he obtained at least two fraudulent matric certificates, a Bachelor of Commerce degree from UNISA, company administration diploma from Technikon Witwatersrand and management diploma from the prestigious US Harvard Business School. Maswanganye admitted on Saturday that he used the fake qualifications to get senior jobs as a chartered accountant, including senior audit manager at Price Waterhouse, finance control director with the Gauteng provincial government and most recently as Mpumalanga’s first black chartered accountant and head of treasury.