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First two 'irregular' PPE tender cases referred for prosecution

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The Competition Tribunal will hear the first two cases relating to irregular procurement processes of personal protective equipment in the public sector.

, which brings together all the relevant law enforcement agencies looking into the PPE procurement,” it said.

It called on all public institutions that procured PPE to exercise caution in making payments to suppliers while investigations of excessive prices were in progress. “The nature and scale of these investigations and prosecutions is unprecedented. Individual investigations will not address what appears to have been a systematic failure of the public procurement system.

 

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