The latest revelations about contracts come amid heightened scrutiny of icare's procurement processes after the Information and Privacy Commission in NSWto publicly register hundreds of contracts worth more than $150,000 since its creation in 2015.
Between September and November 2019, the workers were paid an estimated $158,000 plus GST via the recruitment of 10 employees through their recruitment agencies. They sent additional invoices valued at $71,000 which icare declined to pay., marked confidential, says "the committee was advised that since the employee and contingent worker resigned rather than having their positions terminated, the persons involved could repeat the misconduct .
The investigation was launched following the employee's departure. Internal audit papers said issues included "the payment of overtime which appeared not to be substantiated, and apparent tampering with a contract … At this stage, it appeared that procurement controls required review. An internal audit report on procurement had just been completed and management would look to implement this report as a priority".
"There are anomalies in the footers and page numbers on the two versions which give rise to a strong inference that the version on icare's files was changed in an attempt to make it less obvious that the execution page had been substituted," the report said.
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