{"id":101118,"date":"2015-10-14T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T09:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=101118"},"modified":"2015-10-14T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T09:13:38","slug":"neotel-bribery-probe-nearing-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/101118\/neotel-bribery-probe-nearing-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Neotel bribery probe nearing completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neotel is nearing the end of the\u00a0disciplinary process involving\u00a0CEO Sunil Joshi and CFO Steven Whiley, regarding alleged bribery to secure R2-billion worth of Transnet deals.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Netotel\u2019s Kennedy Memani, who was speaking\u00a0at the 2015 MyBroadband Conference today.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi and Whiley were\u00a0placed on special leave after Neotel\u2019s auditors, Deloitte, blew the whistle on R100 million in questionable payments to a company called Homix.<\/p>\n<p>The Mail &amp; Guardian linked the payments to a bid to clinch billions of rands in deals from Transnet.<\/p>\n<p>Deloitte questioned the commerciality of the fees, and reported the matter to the Independent Regulatory Board of Auditors.<\/p>\n<p>Memani said Neotel will make an announcement in the next 2 to 3 weeks regarding the outcome of the disciplinary process.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Neotel<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Bribery allegations could influence Vodacom\u2019s plans to buy Neotel\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/95433\/bribery-allegations-could-influence-vodacoms-plans-to-buy-neotel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bribery allegations could influence Vodacom\u2019s plans to buy Neotel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Neotel in alleged bribery scandal: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/94703\/neotel-in-alleged-bribery-scandal-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Neotel in alleged bribery scandal: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neotel is nearing the end of the disciplinary process involving CEO Sunil Joshi and CFO Steven Whiley, regarding alleged bribery to secure R2-billion worth of Transnet deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":13263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,261],"class_list":["post-101118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-neotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101120,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101118\/revisions\/101120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}