Norconsultant will no longer bid for contracts managed by local authorities in Tanzania due to widespread corruption. The findings of a new audit, revealing irregular payments to several projects, have made the company decide to close down its local subsidiary Norconsult Tanzania Ltd (NTZ), and to fire the Managing Director. The new audit is the company’s follow up of an on-going World Bank investigation launched more than a year ago in connection with an irregegular USD 146,500 (EUR 93,000) cash payment in the Dar es Salaam Water Supply and Sanitation Project.

Web sites:

• Norconsult
• Dar es Salaam Water Supply and Sanitation Project,
• Global Corruption Report 2008: Corruption in the Water Sector, released in New York on 25 June 2008 by Transparency International.

Related news: Norconsult: risks debarment from World Bank contracts, Source 15 Jun 2007.

Source: Development Today [subscription site], 18 May 2008 ; Norconsult, May 2008

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