Further Travelgate fraud amounting to R19-million was blocked from being investigated months before he was fired, Parliament’s former chief finance officer Harry Charlton has said, the Sunday Tribune reported.
The latest fraud, Charlton said in a sworn affidavit, implicated a number of South Africa’s highest ranking officials.
The revelations were expected to emerge in court where Charlton was arguing that he was fired because he blew the whistle on multimillion-rand travel fraud.
He filed his complaint against Parliament in the Labour Court in June.
Charlton was fired in January after being found guilty on 12 disciplinary charges, most of them related to allegedly
unauthorised agreements with suppliers to Parliament.
According to Charlton the charges were ”dredged up to get rid of him and were without merit and spurious”.
It was also reported that Parliament would argue that Charlton was exempt from legislation protecting whistle-blowers as this safeguard was for the public and private sector only, and did not extend to MPs.
The remaining 12 people accused in the Travelgate trial are expected to appear in court on December 4. — Sapa