TOLL GATE SCANDLE! MK25 million looted in less than 6 months
… 6 Roads Fund employees under probe
By Mercy Matonga
BARELY a year into the commissioning of the country’s first ever road tollgates, six officers working for Roads Fund Administration (RFA) are under criminal investigations after looting close to MK25 million, The Independent Digest can reveal.
The Independent Digest can exclusively reveal that the officers are now under criminal investigation after their methodical operations which are suspected to have defrauded the state millions in revenue, were exposed by a whistleblower.
According to RFA insiders, the syndicate was able to beat a system that was designed to detect and expose fraud early—including through a 24-hour CCTV system and police presence—by issuing duplicate receipts which were supposed to be banked to motorist...