An investigation into a National Intelligence Agency (NIA) staff member, who was also a shareholder in Cyberconn, which won an NIA tender in 2002, is almost complete.
This is according to NIA head of communications Lorna Daniels, who tells ITWeb the findings of the investigation "should be known within a week or so".
A source at the agency, who wishes to remain anonymous, reveals a tender awarded in 2002 for a data transfer line is "a contract to the value of about R22 000 per month over a five-year period".
This amounts to more than R1.3 million over the term of the tender.
"When securing the services of a company, the NIA has to ensure compliance with its policies. It appears there were some irregularities [in the Cyberconn] contract, since an NIA staff member was a shareholder in Cyberconn," the source says.
The employee in question has previously been identified as Dirk de Beer, an NIA systems engineer and ex-shareholder of Cyberconn, who refused to comment on the issue this morning.
The tender was awarded by the NIA`s national communications centre (NCC). The director-general of the NIA, Manala Manzini, who was heading up the NCC at the time the tender was awarded in 2002, is also under investigation for his role in the process.
Manzini was appointed to his position in March this year, following the departure of former NIA head Billy Masetlha in the midst of the e-mail hoax scandal that rocked the NIA earlier this year.
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